Sentences with phrase «inflammatory response to the virus»

In the study, the researchers detected a very small number of SIV infected cells in the gut within initial 2.5 days of viral infection; however, the inflammatory response to the virus was playing havoc with the gut lining.

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Wilson engineered AdV to provoke less of an inflammatory response in the body, ultimately creating what he thought was the right version of the virus.

While the inflammatory immune response is essential to protecting humans against viruses and bacteria, superantigen toxins cause an exaggerated response called an «immune storm» that can do a great deal of damage in the body and can result in multiple organ failure.

When injected into animals, Bachmann's virus - bacteria hybrid induces a strong antibody response that his company, Cytos Biotechnology, is exploiting to design vaccines against two common inflammatory disorders.

«We compared the ability of RSV and parainfluenza virus (PIV3)-- another common virus in children that causes much less severe airway disease — to infect and cause inflammatory responses in a cell culture model of human epithelial cells, which compose the lining of the lung airway.

Researchers compared the inflammatory response of control - treated versus simvastatin - treated cells to RV by measuring CXCL10 secretion, an implicated therapeutic target for virus - induced asthma exacerbations.

Instead of responding to viruses or other foreign invaders in the body, the activated CD8 + T cells launch an inflammatory response to fat, and to bacterial components that migrate to the liver from the gut through the blood.

2009 Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Virus Causes Disease and Upregulation of Genes Related to Inflammatory and Immune Responses, Cell Death, and Lipid Metabolism in Pigs.

«When we saw how much inhibiting PLSCR1 reduced the inflammatory response, we immediately wondered if this mechanism could apply more broadly, not just to virus infection of the brain, but to other types of infections or even autoimmune diseases,» says Yusuf Tufail, a former Salk postdoctoral fellow and first author of the paper.

However, viruses, while effective, introduce other problems to the body, such as toxicity, immune and inflammatory responses, and gene control and targeting issues.

Shortened sleep also seems to alter the inflammatory response, which helps our bodies clear out viruses when it's functioning properly, he says.

Stressed people's immune cells become less sensitive to cortisol and so they are unable to regulate the inflammatory response, and therefore, when they're exposed to a virus, they're more likely to develop a cold.

On the other hand, some birds will be tested for PDD with the PCR at a point when they are no longer shedding the virus, but later go on to develop the disease owing to the inflammatory immune response.