Sentences with phrase «immune cells from»

It has been shown to prevent the immune cells from releasing histamine, the chemical that triggers itching, sneezing, swelling and other allergic reactions.

They protect the bodies immune cells from damage.

It strengthens our immune system and has the power to pump up immune cells from scrawny weaklings into deadlifting beefcakes.

According to Gregory Freund, M.D. of the University of Illinois, «Soluble fiber changes immune cells from being pro-inflammatory warrior cells to anti-inflammatory peacekeeper cells» as a result of the T - cell stimulation.

In another experiment the researchers extracted immune cells from the mice's blood and placed them in contact with cells from sheep's blood.

The data set, one of the largest of its kind, includes primary data and associated metadata from nearly 530,000 immune cells from umbilical cord blood of newborns and bone marrow of adults.

The scientists then isolated immune cells from human blood and studied the effects GABA had on these cells.

Staff at the clinic will take these immune cells from a patient, have the cells specially engineered in a nearby Hutch cell - processing facility, and then re-infuse them to attack the patient's cancer.

This is done by looking at breast cancer patients and isolating immune cells from specimens, for example lymph node, blood and tumor.

Vijay also oversees a large - scale effort to map epigenomic modifications in more than a dozen different types of human immune cells from normal individuals to understand how epigenetic variations cause susceptibility to disease.

Following transplantation of immune cells from an healthy donor into an HIV - positive man in Berlin, traces of the virus disappeared in blood.

To do this, she will compare different memory immune cells from gut biopsies of HIV - positive patients with those from healthy controls.

Examining the genomic and epigenetic makeup of major types of immune cells from nearly 200 blood donors in the U.K., IHEC researchers found that genetics explain most of the epigenetic variation among individuals.

Dr. Vijayanand also oversees a large - scale effort to map epigenomic modifications in more than a dozen different types of human immune cells from normal individuals to understand how epigenetic variations cause susceptibility to disease.

His laboratory has developed a number of techniques to study the molecular profiles of circulating and airway immune cells from patients with asthma and other diseases, using fewer cells than was possible previously.

By introducing them to the body, the researchers found that they were effective in stopping the immune cells from destroying the beta cells and rendered the body able to tolerate their presence.

Some of the liquids proved disturbingly effective at preventing those immune cells from doing their job.

Called pathobionts, such bacteria can shift in the eyes of immune cells from friendly (commensal) to dangerous, triggering inflammation — a rush of cells and proteins meant to destroy bacteria, but that damage the body's cells in the wrong context.

The microglia then «summon» peripheral immune cells from other parts of the body, and these cells proceed to attack the protective myelin sheaths that surround the axons — or nerve fibers — in the brain.

To test that, Jaspers» team collected immune cells from healthy people.

In theory, scientists could remove immune cells from a patient, run them through the microfluidic device and expose them to a viral protein, and then put them back in the patient.

UH researchers have identified a unique epigenetic footprint in specific types of immune cells from blood that can identify individuals with HIV that have a range of impairments in cognitive function.

Additional data * of immune cells from umbilical cord blood and adult bone marrow was provided by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

However, it can be difficult to extract enough immune cells from very young or ill patients.

The Cellbox mission with the immune cells from the University of Zurich is funded by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and conducted together with the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.

This makes CAR - T therapies very expensive, and it is not always possible to extract enough immune cells from very young or ill patients for the technique to work.

By stimulating immune cells from bone marrow, the group was able to «mimic Mother Nature's environmental enrichment in a dish,» says Richard Kraig, a professor of neurology at Chicago.

And when they pre-treated immune cells from vaccinated major allele carriers with a molecule that inhibits the receptor that is normally stimulated by IL - 28B, they saw a stronger antibody response after the cells were stimulated with influenza vaccine.

The researchers removed immune cells from the recipient's blood and then disabled a gene in them using CRISPR — Cas9, which combines a DNA - cutting enzyme with a molecular guide that can be programmed to tell the enzyme precisely where to cut.

To understand how the different alleles influence the immune response to vaccination, the researchers next looked in more detail at immune cells from 47 of the patients (34 had two major T alleles, and 13 had at least one minor G allele).

To overcome these limitations, Mooney's lab has been experimenting with a newer approach that involves reprogramming immune cells from inside the body using implantable biomaterials.

Yipp says the goal is to find a way to block the clumping of cells without inhibiting the immune cells from capturing bugs.

In 2009, for example, Sangamo Therapeutics in Richmond, California, began using zinc finger nucleases to modify genes in immune cells from HIV - infected people, hoping to make the cells resistant to the virus.

Most of the time when the heart is injured, these beneficial immune cells are supplanted by immune cells from the bone marrow, which are spurred to converge in the heart and cause inflammation that leads to further damage.

The researchers concluded that the presence of CBD or THC restrains the immune cells from triggering the production of inflammatory molecules and limits the molecules» ability to reach and damage the brain and spinal cord.

The researchers found that C. mast, when cultured with immune cells from the conjunctiva, induced the production of interleukin (IL)-17, a signaling protein critical for host defense.

«It's generally believed that this barrier also excludes immune cells from the brain.

«By combining the genetic analysis of a small population of immune cells from healthy skin with functional experiments we were able to define two subgroups of memory immune cell and in detail decipher / dissect how these cells behave in healthy and inflamed skin,» explains Liv Eidsmo, researcher at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Medicine.

Supporting that notion, he found in tissue studies that secretions of those cells could keep immune cells from making IL - 17.

This suggested that Tregs act as a «brake» that prevents other immune cells from targeting and rejecting the second transplant.

Except, that is, in the brain, where the blood - brain barrier bars both foreign bodies and immune cells from entry.

Working primarily with mice, senior author and University of Virginia neuroscience professor Jonathan Kipnis and his group identified a hitherto undetected network of lymphatic vessels in the meninges — the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord — that shuttle fluid and immune cells from the cerebrospinal fluid to the deep cervical lymph nodes in the neck.

Using an approach developed at Maisonneuve - Rosemont, consisting of an autograft to reduce tumour mass followed by a family allograft three to four months later to clean the bone marrow of myeloma cells with immune cells from a family donor (immunotherapy), the study resulted in a total cure rate of 41 %, a record level using this strategy.

The human immune system wants to produce antibodies that bind to the glycoprotein to stop infection, but the glycans block immune cells from seeing their targets and developing useful antibodies.

The third approach turns up production of T regulatory cells, which prevent specific immune cells from copying themselves and can also suppress rejection by secreting biochemicals called cytokines that direct the immune orchestra to change its tune.

«This appears to be because immune cells from the joints of rheumatoid arthritis patients are more committed to inflammation, and therefore less likely to change, even though they have all the machinery to respond to vitamin D.»

«We therefore investigated responses to the active form of vitamin D in immune cells from the inflamed joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Next, the team exposed immature immune cells from the blood of healthy people to the bacteria found in the guts of MS patients.

They demonstrated that PS extracts protect blood and immune cells from infection by HIV - 1, the most widespread type of HIV.

Like a cruel form of mind control, some cancerous tumours can reprogram some immune cells to «block» other immune cells from attacking, leaving the tumour free to grow.