Sentences with phrase «humans against infection»

The recommendation stems from the need to keep your pet healthy and also protect humans against infection.

Not exact matches

The lactational amenorrhea method does not protect against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Never mind that the agency's own panel of advisers urged that the drug be rejected, citing concerns that it could promote emergence of drug - resistant bacteria and that the drug belongs to an class of drugs needed as a last line of defense against serious human infections.

Research in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other developed countries, among predominantly middle - class populations, provides strong evidence that human milk feeding decreases the incidence and / or severity of diarrhea,1 - 5 lower respiratory infection,6 - 9 otitis media,3,10 - 14bacteremia, 15,16 bacterial meningitis, 15,17 botulism, 18 urinary tract infection, 19 and necrotizing enterocolitis.20, 21 There are a number of studies that show a possible protective effect of human milk feeding against sudden infant death syndrome,22 - 24insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus,25 - 27 Crohn's disease, 28,29 ulcerative colitis, 29 lymphoma, 30,31 allergic diseases,32 - 34 and other chronic digestive diseases.35 - 37 Breastfeeding has also been related to possible enhancement of cognitive development.38, 39

Future research is needed to investigate whether the protective effect of human milk feedings against infection among VLBW infants extends beyond hospital discharge.

These findings demonstrate a protective effect of human milk feedings against infection and sepsis / meningitis for VLBW infants during NICU hospitalization and further underscore the potential immunologic benefit of providing maternally expressed human milk to hospitalized VLBW infants.

Physiologic sleep studies have found that breastfed infants are more easily aroused from sleep than their formula - fed counterparts.247, 248 In addition, breastfeeding results in a decreased incidence of diarrhea, upper and lower respiratory infections, and other infectious diseases249 that are associated with an increased vulnerability to SIDS and provides overall immune system benefits from maternal antibodies and micronutrients in human milk.250, 251 Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months has been found to be more protective against infectious diseases compared with exclusive breastfeeding to 4 months of age and partial breastfeeding thereafter.249

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections cause virtually all cervical cancers, and the researchers stress the need for widespread HPV vaccination to protect women against the virus.

The vaccination protects against infection from the two types of Human Papilloma Virus that cause seven in 10 cases of cervical cancer, as well as two other types of the virus linked with genital warts.

The discoveries reported in two independent studies in the American Journal of Human Genetics on January 7 add to evidence for an important role for interspecies relations in human evolution and specifically in the evolution of the innate immune system, which serves as the body's first line of defense against infecHuman Genetics on January 7 add to evidence for an important role for interspecies relations in human evolution and specifically in the evolution of the innate immune system, which serves as the body's first line of defense against infechuman evolution and specifically in the evolution of the innate immune system, which serves as the body's first line of defense against infection.

Additional preclinical research is needed before investigating whether 25HC can safely protect humans against Zika virus infection and associated birth defects.

Three vaccine approaches have been shown to protect monkeys against Zika infection, and human trials began in July.

But in a usual flu season, the human body isn't inclined to make infection - fighting antibodies against the stem.

Using a mouse model of HSV - 1 as well as autopsied samples of human adult and fetal tissues, investigators from Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine found that antibodies against HSV - 1 produced by adult women or female mice could travel to the nervous systems of their yet unborn babies, preventing the development and spread of infection during birth.

In human donor cells and mouse experimental models, the researchers demonstrated that TSLP specifically targeted neutrophils — white blood cells that constitute the first line of defense against bacterial infections.

A camel vaccine against MERS coronavirus may reduce the risk of human infection and protect against camelpox too.

Currently, seasonal flu vaccines are designed to induce high levels of protective antibodies against hemagglutinin (HA), a protein found on the surface of the influenza virus that enables the virus to enter a human cell and initiate infection.

The Elias lab has shown that pigmented skin provides a better skin barrier, which was critically important for protection against dehydration and infections among ancestral humans living in sub-Saharan Africa.

This is particularly true within the human body, where iron is concealed in cells and large iron - binding proteins as a first line of defense against infection.

Kang found Korean red ginseng extract improved the survival of human lung epithelial cells against RSV infection and inhibited the virus from replicating, or multiplying, in the body.

Geneticists now think that this aberration survived because it protected early humans against serious infections that arose from more crowded living conditions.

The toxin produced by E. coli is too small to be recognized effectively by the human immune system, meaning that one round of infection does not provide immunity against future exposure.

Antibodies are Y - shaped proteins that in most instances are good because they help fight infection, but people can also make antibodies that work against other humans, which is often a major barrier to transplantation.

Broadly cross-reactive antibodies dominate the human B cell response against 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus infection

Now, researchers at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and their colleagues have shown that amyloid - β can protect against yeast and bacterial infections in two animal models, as well as in cultured human cells.

Poliovirus - specific CD4 + Th1 clones with both cytotoxic and helper activity mediate protective humoral immunity against a lethal poliovirus infection in transgenic mice expressing the human poliovirus receptor.

Dr Peter Barlow says study represents a promising step forward in the rapid development of a safe and robust vaccine against Zika virus infection in humans.

He said traditional drugs to treat tapeworm infection — which target the whole organism at the larval stage - might not have been effective against tapeworm cancer cells, and it's also unclear whether chemotherapy for normal human cancer cells could have helped shrink the tumors.

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.

November 19, 2013 Staphylococcus aureus bacteria turns immune system against itself Around 20 percent of all humans are persistently colonized with Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, a leading cause of skin infections and one of the major sources of hospital - acquired infections, including the antibiotic - resistant strain MRSA.

The trials would be for proof of concept, to show whether researchers can, for the first time in humans, stimulate the right B cells to start the process of making broadly neutralizing antibodies, long considered the «holy grail» of HIV vaccine research because they defend against infection by a broad spectrum of HIV strains.

Genetic engineering of human antibodies; host defense mechanisms against microbial infection.

Pilar received her PhD in 2017 at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she studied immune cell dysfunction and hyperactivation in HIV / HCV coinfected patients, as well as the in vitro and in vivo activity of nanoparticles against HIV - 1 and HSV - 2 infections to prevent their transmission in humans as a topical microbicide.

This premature enthusiasm has more recently given way to caution as the technology has gradually been transferred to humans, with only limited short - term success.3 Finally, since HIV usually enters the body through mucosal surfaces — the vagina and rectum — augmenting an immune response at these portals of entry by using what scientists call mucosal AIDS vaccines might be an additional way to improve protection against infection.

The age - associated decrease in functionality of the human immune system is thought to have a negative impact on the capacity to provide protection against infection, in turn leading to increased incidence of mortality.

However, whether or not these antibodies, if induced by a vaccine, will actually protect humans against HIV infection is still an open question.

THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- The vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, which doctors believe causes most cases of cervical cancer, appears even more effective than believed, a new study finds.

Garlic was confirmed in reports back in the 1980's to be more active against human ringworm (a fungal infection) than conventional pharmaceutical drugs.

Produced in plants to protect against harsh temperatures, drought, ultraviolet light and infection, these flavonoids can offer powerful health benefits to humans as well.

«Our study has provided basic evidence that curcumin protects against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in human cells,» said Dr. Xiyuan Bai, lead author of the study.

Keep in mind that ringworm can be passed to humans, so you should talk all necessary precautions when it comes to protecting your own family against this infection.

Both dogs and humans have an acid mantle, a barrier that protects against infection, bacteria, and viruses, which goes hand in hand with using human shampoo.

If you routinely give your dog human gas reduction products, acidic levels can be depleted, leaving your dog's gut with inadequate protection against bacterial infection.

Bordetella (Kennel Cough): This vaccine is given to dogs to protect against upper - respiratory infections, especially kennel cough (sort of like Whooping Cough in humans).