Sentences with phrase «immune cells called»

Several other fascinating research studies on the healing properties of lemons and limes have shown that cell cycles — including the decision a cell makes about whether to divide (called mitosis) or die (apoptosis — are altered by lime juice, as are the activities of special immune cells called monocytes.

The adrenal stress test also measures immune cells called total SIgA.

What's more, it broke up existing plaques by boosting immune cells called macrophages to clear out the plaque.

Specifically, T α 1 has been shown to enhance the function of certain immune cells called T and dendritic cells.

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This bacterium communicates with our cells to make immune cells called T - regulatory cells.

Analysis of sputum samples revealed that those who had eaten the burger meal had an increased number of immune cells called neutrophils in their airways.

For example, a reduction in the number of immune cells called helper T cells in people with AIDS may play a role in the development and progression of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis in these patients.

It also works in the gut, in clusters of immune cells called Peyer's patches, so absorption is not an issue.

Here's how the treatment works: A patient's blood is filtered so immune cells called T - cells can be altered to contain a cancer - fighting gene.

Most famous is an antibody that targets a molecule on immune cells called PD - 1.

Under the guidance of a world - renowned cancer biologist, Robert Weinberg, Ph.D., Lu is focusing on how metastatic breast cancer cells interact with a subset of immune cells called macrophages, which normally are capable of engulfing — literally eating — infected, damaged, or cancerous cells.

First, when GLA is accompanied by a tumor antigen and injected into a patient, the combination is taken up by the DCs and leads to the production and expansion of immune cells called CD4 helper T cells.

Although investigators have not yet identified which cells carry Sema4a in tumors and boost regulatory T cell function, the scientists did report that immune cells called plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) provided more than half of the Sema4a in tumors in this study.

Nivolumab targets and blocks a protein called PD - 1 on the surface of certain immune cells called T - cells.

11/6/2007 UCSD Researchers Discover Inflammation, Not Obesity, Cause of Insulin Resistance Findings may have important potential for new drug discoveries in fight against Type 2 diabetes Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered that inflammation provoked by immune cells called macrop... More...

In the early stages of infection, HIV hides in viral reservoirs in a type of immune cells called T cells.

What he found was that this switch, called an ion channel, controls the flow of calcium into immune cells called macrophages.

An international team of researchers reveals how immune cells called macrophages activate to kill parasitic worms.

In models lacking NLRX1, innate immune cells called macrophages produce higher levels of IL - 6, a signaling molecule that has a central role in colorectal cancer development.

Paul Klenerman, M.D., Ph.D., a 2014 - 2016 Clinic and Laboratory Integration Program (CLIP) grantee and a professor at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, is studying a novel set of immune cells called mucosal - associated invariant T (MAIT) cells and their association with inflammation as a cause of liver cancer.

Small clusters of immune cells called granulomas form, walling off the bacteria.

Although its root cause is unknown, eczema is linked to hyper - reactivity of immune cells called mast cells following exposure to allergens and irritants, similar to asthma and food allergies.

We're also developing cellular therapies, which improve the canker - killing activity of powerful immune cells called NK cells and T cells, rather than using drugs to treat the cancer directly.

By this, researchers demonstrated that a peripheral nerve injury in rats would send a message from the damaged nerve cell to special spinal cord immune cells called «glial cells».

But it's easy to harvest large numbers of their close cousins, immune cells called macrophages.

For HIV to develop into full - blown AIDS, the virus must deplete a subset of immune cells called CD4 + T cells, disabling an infected person's adaptive immune system in the process.

«All we knew for a long time was that special immune cells called histiocytes were found in the tissue of patients who were sick,» says Melissa Hines, MD, of St. Jude Critical Care.

Marauding immune cells called natural killer (NK) cells, which attack and kill invaders and spew inflammatory substances called cytokines, need to be «licensed» to properly carry out...

«My whole work is about immune cell responses to melanoma — how we can teach particular immune cells called killer T cells to recognise melanoma better, target melanoma better and kill melanoma better,» Katherine says.

In previous research, a team led by the same Artyomov showed that inflammatory immune cells called macrophages produce significant amounts of itaconate when they detect bacteria.

he body responds to tuberculosis infection by locking the bacterial offenders into tiny clusters of immune cells called granulomas, which are a hallmark of the disease.

There are immune cells called T - cells, for instance, that travel around the body seeking and destroying abnormal - looking cells that may be infected or turning cancerous.

Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered the mechanism by which immune cells called regulatory T cells keep themselves intact and functional during their demanding task of holding the immune system in check.

HIV wreaks havoc by destroying immune cells called T - cells.

The new findings, published online in the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, show that combining rapamycin with a gene therapy approach enhanced the animals» ability to summon immune cells called CD8 + T cells to kill tumor cells directly.

Rare in the body and hard to study, immune cells called basophils have long gotten short shrift from researchers.

When pollen enters the nose, immune cells called mast cells bind to a protein, or antigen, in the pollen grain and release histamine — a chemical that causes inflammation, which leads to itching and sneezing.

In the brain, a synapse (orange) is seen being wrapped around and attacked by immune cells called microglia (green), leading to synapse loss.

The researchers went on to identify the immune networks underlying IL - 33's harmful effects and discovered that this molecule activates immune cells called type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2), which had never before been linked to liver disease.

The round white cells are specialized immune cells called neutrophils.

Blood rushes back into the brain tissue, bringing with it immune cells called T - cells, which flock to the source of an injury.

Giving patients a dose of their tumor neoantigens, which look foreign to the immune system, should help activate immune cells called T cells to attack the cancer cells.

To fend them off, it relies on immune cells called dendritic cells, which detect invaders and then call in the cavalry of T cells to attack.

There's evidence that immune cells called macrophages in belly fat become inflamed as we get older.

His team has previously shown that using a cancer drug to wipe out immune cells called B - cells in CFS patients seems to relieve the condition.

In emphysema, a class of immune cells called macrophages flock to the lungs.

The antibody binds to immune cells called mast cells, which then triggers release of a cascade of chemicals that produce all kinds of inflammation and irritation.

Through studies conducted in mice, Oliver M. Steinmetz, MD (University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, in Germany) and his colleagues have shown that the messenger protein IL - 6, which is rapidly produced at high levels during an acute inflammatory form of kidney disease, potently dampens activation of tissue - destructive immune cells called macrophages.