Sentences with phrase «in tropism»

Once this transformation or change in tropism (preference) has occurred, the body's immune system runs amuck with severe inflammation attacking cells that harbor the virus (liberation of pro-inflammatory cytokines).

When feline coronavirus looses it's interest in living in the cats intestine (a change in tropism) and moves deeper into the cats body causing FIP, much less virus is shed in the cat's feces.

Not exact matches

The psychologist Paul C. Vitz has observed, «The «divine right» of the consumer to choose as he or she pleases has become so common an idea that it operates in millions of Americans like an unconscious tropism.»

Tropism is the almost mechanical drive in plants toward the sun (heliotropism), the earth (geotropism), water (hydrotropism), etc..

Instinct, in its turn, has its counterpart in a still more rudimentary form in vegetative life as tropism.

Efforts to identify host range and cell tropism of TMAdV, as well as the specific sequence changes responsible for adaptation to growth in cell culture, are currently underway.

In addition to the viral vector itself, each virus particle comprises a viral envelope that fuses with the target cell's membrane and determines target cell specificity or tropism (see Viruses of a Feather Infect Together, below), and a protein capsid that encloses the genetic material.

By integrating the sequence data and the associated metadata, we have established laboratory and bioinformatics - based methods that enable us to investigate scientific questions including: the tropism of ZIKV for dendritic cells and the antiviral response of the cells during infection (Bowen et al. 2017); investigating the phylogenetic diversity of strains obtained by Biodefense and Emerging Infections (BEI) Resources and distributed to virologists (manuscript in preparation); the genetic determinants of ZIKV host adaptation in C6 / 36 mosquito vs. Vero cells; and the diversity of ZIKV circulating in limited geographic regions, including Barbados, Colombia, and the state of Chiapas, Mexico.

Scientific sessions and technical symposia are also arranged, the topics are ranging from in the Asia, Oceania and particularly in SAARC and ASEAN regions «Magneto - Hydro - Tropism (MHT)», «Sub-soil Hydro - Toxicology».

Guinevere (Guin) received her PhD in HIV genotypic drug resistance and tropism inferences from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

To directly evaluate the relationship between ABL family kinases and metastasis, we analyzed ABL1 and ABL2 protein abundance in MDA - MB - 231 — derived breast cancer cell lines with different organ metastasis tropisms (19).

Furthermore, these antibody - secreting NSCs retain tropism to tumor cells in vitro and can deliver anti-HER2 antibody to tumor foci in vivo.

We also demonstrate that immunoglobulin - secreting NSCs exhibit preferential tropism to tumor cells in vivo, and can deliver antibodies to human breast cancer xenografts in mice.

Important features of XMRV biology include (1) tropism for a variety of cell lines, including prostate cancer DU145 and LNCaP cells [27], [43], [48], and human neural cell types [57], (2) adaptations that promote growth in prostate epithelium and human - derived prostate cancer cell lines including an androgen response element in the promoter region [58] and downregulation of APOBEC3G [59], and (3) cellular effects with potential oncogenic properties including increased tumor aggressiveness mediated by downregulation of p27 [60] and differential regulation of several microRNAs [61].

This result indicates that immunoglobulin - expressing HB1.F3 NSCs would likely maintain the in vivo tumor tropism of the parental NSC line.

Similar to virus tropism, it is also a lock - and - key mechanism, in that the custom - designed antibody fits over «keys» on the surface of the invader and either destroys it outright or tags it for later removal by other soldiers of the immune system.

This change in the virus» preference (a change in biotype) as to where it resides is called enhanced macrophage tropism.

Encapsulated virus (like feline rhinotracheitis virus), opportunistic and low immunogenic activity, with tropism for both respiratory and genital mucous membranes and central nervous system, capable of persisting in a latent status and reactivating at regular intervals.