Sentences with phrase «immune responses against them later»

Another potential problem is that prolonged exposure to the immunoadhesins or the vector itself could lead to immune responses against them later.

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There is evidence to suggest the gene originally controlled stem cells or immune response, and was only later co-opted to defend animals against rogue cells when they became large and long - lived.

In 2008, he joined the group of Caetano Reis e Sousa at the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) London Research Institute and later joined the Francis Crick Institute, where he was awarded Marie Curie and EMBO long - term postdoctoral fellowships to investigate innate immune receptors and signaling pathways that trigger dendritic cell activation and drive T - cell responses against viruses or tumors.

In their latest work, reported online in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the scientists analyzed blood from such mice and identified two types of autoimmune response directed specifically against the protein, with the first response directed by a specialized kind of immune system cells called T cells and the second by antibodies.