Sentences with phrase «human immune molecule»

«Zika virus may cause microcephaly by hijacking human immune molecule: Fetal brain model provides first clues on how Zika virus blunts brain development; blocking mechanism reduces cell damage.»

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In the meantime, for humans more than 1,200 different short, single - stranded RNA molecules have been named, some of them playing an important role in immune response.

This molecule, a type of sugar, has become chemically glued to a location on the virus's surface near where human antibodies — immune system watchdogs — attach to mark the virus as a dangerous invader.

The HLA (human leukocyte antigen) is a system of genes responsible for regulating immune responses, and peptides are short chains of amino acids that play key roles in regulating the activities of other molecules.

The researchers modified a type of human immune cell — called T lymphocytes, or T cells — to target a molecule called CS1, which is found on more than 95 percent of myeloma cells, and to kill the cells.

He explains, «The protein that Kathryn characterized is part of the process by which these molecules trick the human immune system so that it doesn't attack the bacteria as hard as it should, so they survive in the body.

She found a gene for what's known as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-- cell surface molecules that help the immune system recognize foreigners — that was remarkably similar to one in humans that allows infected people to keep the virus in check for decades.

Humans respond to cold in two ways: we shiver to produce a quick burst of heat, and as Ajay Chawla at the University of California, San Francisco, recently discovered, immune signals get sent to molecules called macrophages.

A team of researchers based partly in South Africa has identified a key set of immune system molecules that helps determine how effectively a person resists infection with human immunodeficiency...

The human immune system contains a collection of different cell types and molecules that help to protect the body from toxins, viral infections, bacteria, and parasites.

She is registred to the National Order of Biologists in the province of Palermo; collaboration in research project from 2012 to 2015 at the Department of Biopathology and Biotechnology, University of Palermo, focusing the study on the identification of molecules capable to modulate intracellular metabolic pathways for the prevention and treatment of infectious, tumor and degenerative disease, in collaboration with Prof. Angela Santoni, University of Rome; collaboration in research project in 2011 at the hospital «Villa Sofia Cervello» of Palermo to study methods can cure the genetic defect that causes thalassemia through genetic engineering; she studies different mechanisms of the differentiation and the activation of human gammadelta T cells as effector cells of the immune response against cancer and infectious diseases; she investigates about the identification and development of biomarkers of resistance and susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection; Valentina Orlando has published 13 papers in peer reviewed journals and 3 comunications at national and international congress.

In 2007, he was awarded a prestigious National Career Development Fellowship to undertake translational studies in the epigenetic regulation of the immune cell signaling molecules in human asthma under the mentorship of K. Mark Ansel, Ph.D., at UC San Francisco, where he was appointed adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Medicine in 2009.

By analyzing the molecular aspects of the extensive immune crosstalk between the fungal pathogen and the human host allows to define novel evasion strategies and defines new molecules which can serve as useful markers to develop new antifungal compounds and vaccine candidates.

The identification of these molecules led to a set of studies showing that their presence on human and mouse tumors rendered the tumors resistant to immune eradication.

Although all seven genes in the interval are Idd10 candidates, we suggest the gene encoding the EWI immunoglobulin subfamily member EWI - 101 (Cd101) as the most likely Idd10 candidate because of the previously reported immune - associated properties of the human CD101 molecule.

TNF inhibitors — known as biologic drugs, because they're derived from substances that occur naturally in humans and animals — work by blocking the action of TNF, an important immune - system molecule.

This is the first of a seven video series that takes a deep dive into the human immune system to bring you Neu5Gc, a molecule in meat that human tumors may use to facilitate growth.

Immune System Booster — The sulphur that is present within the Methylsulfonylmethane is what helps your dog's body with an enhanced production of immunoglobulins, the molecule boosting the immune system in the dog (and the human, too.)