Sentences with phrase «immunosuppressive lymphocytes»

«PD - L1 allows immunosuppressive lymphocytes to suppress cytotoxic T cells, but it's also their «Achilles heel,»» said Karin, who is also the Ben and Wanda Hildyard Chair for Mitochondrial and Metabolic Diseases.

However, chronic liver inflammation in both mice and humans also led to the accumulation of immunosuppressive lymphocytes, a type of immune cell Karin and Shalapour first described two years ago.

Similarly, mice without immunosuppressive lymphocytes hardly had any tumors, even at 11 months, presumably since their absence left the cytotoxic T cells alone to do their tumor - fighting job.

Karin, Shalapour and team are now working out how immunosuppressive lymphocyte are recruited to the liver.

Not exact matches

The ability of CD8 + T lymphocytes to eliminate tumors is limited by their ability to engender an immunosuppressive microenvironment.

One theory regards the cause to be a defect in t - lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) which respond to an immunosuppressive substance produced by the mites, resulting in a dog whose immune system can not get rid of the mites.