Sentences with phrase «immune response to the virus»

It's possible that a mother's immune response to a virus regulates gene activity and pathways while the brain is still developing.

A variety of medications designed to reduce the abnormal immune response to the virus or reduce the ability of the virus to reproduce have been tried and may provide some relief from the disease.

Other research is investigating whether agonist reagents that can signal various immune cells such as T cells, dendritic cells, or NK cells, through the TNF family receptors OX40, 4 - 1BB, HVEM, or LTβR can be used to increase natural immune responses to viruses or tumors that might lead to new strategies for vaccination.

Researchers will also have to examine if triggering a robust immune response to the virus puts people at risk, Sullivan notes, because a frenzied immune system response is what destroys lung tissue and sometimes proves deadly when people are infected with H5N1, a type of avian flu.

«There is some evidence that men make weaker immune responses to some viruses than women, but how this happens and whether it is seen across all viruses is still unclear to me,» notes John Upham, professor of respiratory medicine at Queensland University in Australia.

«What this tells us is that women who get pregnant who have a pre-existing herpes infection have a mature immune response to that virus and will pass those antibodies to their baby,» Leib said.

«In general, the lower the temperature, it seems the lower the innate immune response to viruses,» noted Iwasaki.

A study published on July 23rd in PLOS Pathogens suggests that several critical components of the early immune response to the virus are impaired in elderly individuals, and that this can explain their vulnerability.

These latter two cell types can mount effective immune responses to viruses and tumors; whereas, exhausted T cells fail and memory T cells, in particular, for long - lasting durable effects.

The rationale for selecting CPV and CDV for serum antibody testing is based on the clinically important diseases they cause, combined with the usefulness of the host's humoral immune response to these viruses for determining the need for revaccination.

The findings, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, shed light on the activity of these genes and how they produce a natural immune response to the virus.

Researchers in my lab think that this impact of influenza infection on muscles is another unintended consequence of the immune response to the virus.

While this process causes some lung injury, most of the symptoms of the flu are actually caused by the immune response to the virus.

A drug used to stop immune cells from gobbling up transplanted organs and bone marrow has been caught boosting the immune response to a virus in mice and monkeys.

«Our data supports the idea that the body's immune response to viruses could be associated with fatigue by affecting the brain through inflammation.

Another key element concerns the involvement of several identified candidate genes in the immune response to viruses, thus highlighting the importance of viral infections in the risk of asthma.

To better understand how this abnormal distribution of B cell types in people with uncontrolled HIV affected their immune response to the virus, researchers compared HIV - specific antibodies derived from both TLM and RM B cells.

Human caretakers developed an immune response to the virus, but they never came down with any symptoms.

Patients undergoing this viral therapy typically experience mild flulike symptoms, owing to immune response to the virus, Kirn said, but the company has reported no other side effects.

She also offered proof that patients had mounted an immune response to the virus.

Because Zika typically has trouble establishing infections in mice, the researchers used animals that were genetically altered so that they could not produce interferon, a key immune system signaling molecule, thus dampening the animals» immune response to the virus.

The findings are significant because it helps researchers further understand the immune response to a virus such as Ebola and could lead to treatments for Ebola as well as other related viruses.

Virologists have long known that HIV infects and kills CD4 + T cells, which mediate the body's immune response to viruses.

After a person is infected, the immune response to the virus tends to become stronger over a few weeks.

Your immune response to the virus can trigger a crisis such as a heart attack or even spiral out of control and kill you.

PEOPLE who suffer long - term infection with hepatitis B may have a genetic weakness in their immune response to the virus, say researchers in Britain and Qatar.

In using the Emotional Freedom Technique, the emotional cause, which originally weakened the natural immune system, is addressed by tapping acupuncture meridians and reactivating the immune response to the virus.

The clinical signs are caused by the virus and the bird's immune response to the virus.