Sentences with phrase «immune system responses directly»

The Johns Hopkins scientists who conducted the trial said the finding is significant because measuring immune system responses directly in the lesions may be a more accurate way to evaluate so - called «therapeutic» vaccines than by the conventional means of blood analysis.

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Allison pioneered immune checkpoint blockade, an approach that treats the immune system, rather than the tumor directly, by blocking molecules on T cells that shut those attack cells down, protecting tumors from immune response.

To more directly investigate the role for immune responses in depression - like behaviors, the investigators used irradiation to lesion the immune system of mice.

Checkpoint blockade: Fewer but stronger results Allison pioneered immune checkpoint blockade, an approach that treats the immune system, rather than the tumor directly, by blocking molecules on T cells that shut those attack cells down, protecting tumors from immune response.

A new UC San Francisco study has shown that a cancer - killing («oncolytic») virus currently in clinical trials may function as a cancer vaccine — in addition to killing some cancer cells directly, the virus alerts the immune system to the presence of a tumor, triggering a powerful, widespread immune response that kills cancer cells far outside the virus - infected region.

If a person is overusing the sympathetic or fight - or - flight nervous system, this directly inhibits digestion, elimination, and the immune response.

P. acnes bacteria does lead to acne but it is actually your immune system's response to p.acnes that directly creates it.

Vaccines shortcut the initial inflammatory response and directly stimulate the adaptive immune system.

We question the effect of injecting a disease into our dogs, thus putting a virus directly into the bloodstream that normally enters only through the mouth, respiratory system, etc., thus bypassing the entire primary immune response that occurs in the mucous membranes.