Sentences with phrase «inactivated by antibodies»
While studying a group of women at risk of HIV in Mombasa, Kenya, senior author Overbaugh and colleagues noticed that one woman carried an AIDS virus that was easily inactivated by antibodies.
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The flu vaccine works by exposing the body to parts of inactivated flu from the three major different types of flu that infect humans, prompting the immune system to develop antibodies against these viruses.
Previous laboratory studies have shown that antibodies produced by the human immune system to fight dengue virus can also interact with Zika virus (ZIKV) without inactivating it.
They also rally forces by docking to the CD40 receptor of B cells, stimulating these cells to manufacture potent immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies that can inactivate foreign proteins.
By 2000, Korman and Lonberg had used this approach to create a human antibody, ipilimumab, that binds and inactivates CTLA - 4.