Sentences with phrase «immunological systems»

They are known to harm the heart, brain, kidney, and immunological systems.

Melanoma is a tumor that is recognized by the immunological system and mechanisms leading to an anti-tumor immune response of potential value in the adjuvant setting.

During the first week after each shot, your dog will have his immunological system suppressed, which can make it more likely it can catch some other, unrelated disease.

Not exact matches

** The immunological defense system of the soft mucosa, which may produce antibacterial and antiviral proteins such as lysozyme, also found in mothers milk, and plasma cells, which secrete immunoglobulin antibodies.

Stanford researchers recently discovered that the changes in an expectant mother's immune system follow a specific timeline in full - term pregnancies, which they dubbed an «immunological clock of pregnancy.»

Initial immunological investigations suggested a genetically determined dysregulation of the immune system.

Mice raised with human microbiomes never develop mature immune systems, which may explain the rise in immunological illnesses

Post-infectious or post-vaccinal demyelinating encephalomyelitis and neuritis may be due to immunological cross-reactions evoked by specific viral antigenic determinants (epitopes) that are homologous to regions in the target myelins of the central and peripheral nervous systems.

The broad influence of the immune system on diverse aspects of health and disease is beginning to be appreciated, and innovative immunological interventions are proving successful in the clinic.

Moreover, a certain degree of natural immunological protection for certain body parts — the central nervous system, eyes and gonads — makes it difficult for virus to exit those bodily parts, which may lead to the virus continuing to be present even after the virus was cleared from the blood, according to Bausch.

These short - lived molecules can dip into mom's immunological experience to protect the newborn until the immune system gets up to speed.

What's more, IL - 33 and the DNA vaccine augmented immunological responses in both CD4 helper T cells and CD8 killer T cells, with a large proportion of CD8 killer T cells demonstrating a further improvement in the ability of DNA vaccines to drive the immune system to kill tumor cells in animals.

If this is the case, a team of scientists from the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences in Paris reasoned, individuals may be inheriting some immunological memory not just from their mothers, but from all their maternal ancestors: A grandmother's immune system educates the mother's, and those modifications are preserved as the mother then instructs the third generation.

«Lerner's creation of combinatorial libraries of antibodies enables the construction of immunological repertoires far superior to those produced by the human immune system.»

Thus, the measles virus might cause what the scientists termed immunological amnesia, impairing the immune system's ability to remember and quickly eliminate other microbes it has already beaten.

We applied this to systems spanning four orders of magnitude in space and time, including the diffusion of single transcription factor molecules in stem cell spheroids, the dynamic instability of mitotic microtubules, the immunological synapse, neutrophil motility in a 3D matrix, and embryogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster.

That includes revisiting the hygiene hypothesis, which holds that a lack of childhood exposure to microbiota and other potentially infectious agents may hinder the development of the immune system and increase susceptibility to immunological disorders.

Weaver notes, however, that CO poisoning also activates a series of immunological pathways that cause lingering damage to the nervous and cardiovascular systems.

This effort will combine deep knowledge of immunological lineages, clinical expertise and infrastructure needed to procure and process diverse samples, genomic and computational expertise to resolve the hundreds of finely differentiated cell - types that compose all facets of the immune system, and the genomic signatures that define them.

Through the use of immunological, molecular and cell biological techniques, my laboratory is defining the phenotype and function of different monocyte subsets that infiltrate the central nervous system following traumatic injury.

«Cytokines provide the intercellular communication links between the immune system and other tissues and organs... Thus, the study of cytokines has helped to propel immunology from the limited areas of immunological specificity to larger concerns of the cell biology, biochemical, molecular, and clinical aspects of host defense.»

«We can collect cohorts of new patients and try to understand new aspects of the disease, model them in our system in the germ - free mice, and then drill down into the fine immunological details of the disease,» he explains.

Such an immunological exemption could alleviate many concerns about using cells for therapy that don't exactly match the recipient's immune system - such as existing embryonic stem cell lines that are not directly derived from the recipient.

This novel approach, which reveals complex interactions between cells and proteins, can also be used for other diseases to generate new knowledge about the regulation and dysregulation of the immune system, which can eventually give rise to new, improved immunological therapies.

Dr. Ahmed studies immunological memory — the ability of the immune system to «remember» a particular antigen and respond accordingly.

Current studies focus mainly on two receptor systems - the mast cell surface receptor, FcεRI, and the receptor for epidermal growth factor that operate in immunological and cell proliferation responses.

First, biological aging causes the limited pool of immunological killer T - cells to be slowly taken over by defective («anergic») subpopulations that are no longer able to carry out their specialized work, and suppress the effectiveness of the rest of the system.

All requirements for high level immunological determinations (including ELISPOT reader, FACSAria, LSRII system fully equipped, Luminex, multi-label plate reader) are on site and in routine use.

It is also the first in an emerging class of therapies called «checkpoint blockade,» which enhance the immune system's ability to attack cancer by interfering with immunological checkpoints that slow or stop immune cell activation and proliferation in the presence of tumors or chronic viral infection.

Therefore, we must be aware of introducing any additional harmful substances into our system as these may impair our immunological efforts to create health.

We are an industrialized society exposed to pollution, evolving agriculture (GMOs, processed foods, pesticides), and a whole host of immunological insults that over-activate our systems.

Colostrum also provides essential immunological support for healthy immune systems from IgG.

All of our body systems require immunological markers and cells in order to function optimally.

Abuse, belittlement, insults, neglect, loss of loved ones, parental acrimony... the traumas children weather unfortunately become a lifelong «operating system» that has profound influences on immunological and neurological health.

Last, antioxidants also play a role in the immune system as they help the body eliminate free radicals, which are damaging to the human body and immunological function.

Upon detection of the antigen, the lymphatic system initiates a immunological cascade that activates or produces more and more lymphocytes to wipe out the threat.

Antioxidant status is a critical factor involved in developing a healthy immune system that can effectively respond to all immunological challenges.

This system helps maintain the body's physiological, neurological and immunological functions.

When studying our closest relative, the primate researchers found that «Separation is so traumatic for the infant monkey that their whole system rebels: They experience loss of body temperature, release of stress hormones (cortisol), cardiac arrhythmias, increased heart rate, agitation, sleep disturbances, and immunological compromises.

Exclusion criteria included health problems (or related medications) that had an immunological or endocrinological component or obvious consequences for these systems or for wound healing (eg, cancer, recent surgeries, strokes, diabetes mellitus, peripheral vascular disease, conditions such as asthma or arthritis that required regular use of antiinflammatories, etc).