Sentences with phrase «host immune cells»
How the bacterium survives attack by host immune cells remains unknown.
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«HIV particles do not cause AIDS, our own immune cells do: The virus turns host immune cells into suicide machines, using them to spread the virus and cause the progression from HIV to AIDS.»
The virus turns host immune cells into suicide machines, using them to spread the virus and cause the progression from HIV to AIDS
Injections of predatory bacteria work alongside host immune cells to treat Shigella infection in zebrafish larvae.
The team went on to show that Haemophilus somehow recruited host immune cells, called neutrophils, to the site of colonization.
Altering proteins in one part of the virus to achieve a certain benefit, such as more efficient gene transfer or reduced recognition by host immune cells, could end up destroying the structural integrity of the entire shell.
HIV can either be spread through free - floating virus that directly infect the host immune cells or an infected cell can pass the virus to an uninfected cell.
For years, pathologists have observed that most tumors are infiltrated by host immune cells, presumably ones that are attempting to destroy them.
ART suppresses the replication of HIV in the host immune cell population and stops the progression of HIV - related disease.
Until now, experts thought that latency came about because a host immune cell that became infected with HIV would naturally lower its activity level, thereby impeding the virus from taking further hold.
By playing with the protein, they showed that the virus could be switched on or off separate from the rhythms of its host immune cell, indicating that the two processes were independent of one another.
It inserted its genes into host immune cells, which then produced new viruses.
The research team also created a synthetic version of the virus in a lab and found that toying with Tat completely outside of a host immune cell could also switch it on and off, building on a study published last year which concluded that latency was «hard - wired» into the virus.