Sentences with phrase «innate immune response to viruses»
«In general, the lower the temperature, it seems the lower the innate immune response to viruses,» noted Iwasaki.
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«The first line of defense of the immune system, the innate immune response, is not acting quickly enough to clear the virus,» says co-lead author Gülsah Gabriel, a virologist at the Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology in Hamburg, Germany.
The UNC research team, led by Lemon and Jason Whitmire, Ph.D., Associate Professor in UNC's Department of Genetics, is now poised to investigate the complicated interplay of nonspecific «innate» and specific «adaptive» immune responses that ultimately control the infection and eliminate HAV from the host — processes that are not well understood for any of the five human hepatitis viruses.
«We're going to introduce additional mutations to sensitize the virus even more to the innate immune response and prevent the infection from spreading,» said Diamond, who also is a professor of molecular microbiology, and of pathology and immunology.
When researchers infected these ERV - depleted cells with the vaccinia virus (which may be related to smallpox), they had a much weaker innate immune response than unedited normal cells, the team reports online today in Science.
In 2008, he joined the group of Caetano Reis e Sousa at the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) London Research Institute and later joined the Francis Crick Institute, where he was awarded Marie Curie and EMBO long - term postdoctoral fellowships to investigate innate immune receptors and signaling pathways that trigger dendritic cell activation and drive T - cell responses against viruses or tumors.
In addition, the strain isolated from lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic had rare mutations in two viral proteins: the CDV - H protein, which binds to the host cell receptor (called SLAM CD 150) and therefore plays an important role to facilitate viral entry into host cells, and the CDV - V protein, which enables the virus to manipulate the innate immune response of the host.
Cytokine milieu of atopic dermatitis skin subverts the innate immune response to vaccinia virus.