Sentences with phrase «infected white blood cells»

The infected white blood cells then carry the virus to the cat's vital organs (e.g. the kidneys, liver, pancreas and brain) causing a severe inflammatory reaction.

«There are positive signs that the edited cells do end up in tissues that harbour infected white blood cells carrying dormant viruses, known as reservoirs, which is where they would be most useful.

HIV infects white blood cells by sequentially attaching to two receptors on their surfaces.

They were examining the blood of a koala dying of leukemia when they came across a virus infecting its white blood cells.

The virus infects white blood cells called B cells and can drive the development of blood cancers, including Burkitt's and Hodgkin's lymphoma.

FIV preferentially infects white blood cells which are an essential part of a cat's immune system.

The virus works by infecting the white blood cells.

Ehrlichia bacteria infect the white blood cells.

Not exact matches

Robyn Biti, Graeme Stewart of Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia, and colleagues report that they have found an HIV - infected homosexual man whose white blood cells contain a defective copy of a critical surface protein, called CCR5, that the virus uses to gain entry into the cells.

During the initial stages of HIV infection, often within hours, the virus infects a type of white blood cell called CD4 T cells.

After infecting the respiratory tract, the virus hijacks the immune system's white blood cells, using them to spread in the body — including to the skin to cause chickenpox.

An international team of scientists, led by Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute researcher Dr Di Yu, and Dr Axel Kallies from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, have discovered that killer T cells, a specialised type of white blood cells, can find these «hidden» infected cells in tissue and destroy them.

Further searching turned up retroviral particles, which could kill white blood cells and which also reacted with antibodies from infected patients.

L. monocytogenes infects and moves through white blood cells using actin rockets, also known as «comet tails.»

The rockets work like this: A protein anchored to the bacterium's membrane triggers the rapid polymerization of the protein actin; this provides an explosive boost, so the bacterium can push through the membrane of white blood cells and burst out to infect another cell.

The study's researchers infected macrophages, a type of human white blood cell, with a highly virulent strain of tuberculosis.

Until this week, the WHO recommended that HIV treatment should begin when each millilitre of an infected person's blood contains fewer than 350 CD4 cells, the white blood cells targeted and destroyed by HIV.

Currently, the WHO recommends that HIV treatment should not begin for most infected people until each cubic millimetre of their blood contains fewer than 350 CD4 cells, the white blood cells targeted and destroyed by HIV.

Using a polymerase chain reaction test, the team hunted for the bacterium in a type of white blood cells that Chlamydia is known to infect.

HIV primarily infects CD4 T cells, which are a type of white blood cell that plays an important role in regulating the immune response.

In most cases, infected epithelial cells are quickly killed by CD8 + cells, a type of white blood cells; only occasionally does the infection overwhelm the immune system, resulting in a lesion.

Infected or injured tissues release IL - 8 to attract bacteria - and virus - killing white blood cells known as neutrophils, a process known as «recruitment.»

It triggers the production of white blood cells, helping the body to reject virally infected cells and maintain optimal health.

Note: Histamines work with prostaglandins and are created by Basophils, a leukocyte or white blood cell, and histamines increase the permeability of blood cells to allow the white blood cells to move to the infected or injured tissues.

With Tamiflu inhibiting said protein they are contained within the cell and the infected cell is eliminated by white blood cells.

Abstract: Ehrlichia canis is a rickettsia that infects canine monocytes (type of white blood cells) and causes a variety of unique clinical and hematologic signs, including monoclonal gammopathy and clonal expansion of CD8 T cells.

Low white blood cell counts are also an indicator of the CPV (canine parvovirus) since the disease infects the bone marrow.

The virus is not fully understood — largely because the virus mutates and has the ability to attack and breed in specified white blood cells, specifically macrophages — but what is known is that cats become infected when they ingest or inhale the virus.

It's called Panleukopenia because of how the virus will temporarily wipe out the infected cat or kitten's bone marrow of the precursor cells that produce white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.

Parvovirus also attacks the white blood cells, and when young animals are infected, the virus can damage the heart muscle and cause lifelong cardiac problem (pets.webmd.com)

It is often this septicemia, combined with the effects of dehydration and the depletion of white blood cells needed to fight the infection, which proves fatal to most cats infected with Panleuk.

It attacks white blood cells in the body and literally destroys the lining of the GI tract, allowing bacteria to infect the bloodstream (a serious condition called septicemia).

After infecting a puppy, parvovirus enters the puppy's bone marrow and kills white blood cells which are needed to protect the puppy against disease.

With the assistance of the antibodies that are supposed to protect the cat, white blood cells are infected with virus, and these cells then transport the virus throughout the cat's body.

When a dog gets infected with parvovirus, the vomiting and diarrhea can be so severe that bacteria can seep right through the GI walls and the immune system won't have the necessary white blood cells to fight the infection.

This type of lyme disease in dogs is caused by bacteria which infects a type of white blood cell.

Each form of ehrlchiosis bacteria tends to infect a specific type of white blood cell or the platelets.

FIV infects and destroys lymphocytes, which are important white blood cells that help your cat fight infection.

It depletes infected cats of white blood cells, which in turn makes it more difficult for them to fight off infections.

When the virus infects these areas the lining of the intestine literally dies, the bone marrow can not make red or white blood cells in adequate quantity, and the immune system can become impaired.