Sentences with phrase «invades cells»

A highly contagious virus that invades cells in the body and is transmitted when a susceptible cat has contact with an infected cat or that cats environment.

The influenza virus invades cells by puncturing the cell wall with the tiny spikes of hemaGglutinin that cover its surface.

Understanding how malaria invades the cells could lead to a more effective vaccine.

HCV invades cells in the body by binding to specific receptors on the cell, enabling the virus to enter it.2 Once inside, HCV hijacks functions of the cell known as transcription, translation and replication, which enables HCV to make copies of its viral genome and proteins, allowing the virus to spread to other sites of the body.2 When HCV enters the host cell, it releases viral (+) RNA that is transcribed by viral RNA replicase into viral -LRB--) RNA, which can be used as a template for viral genome replication to produce more (+) RNA or for viral protein synthesis.

In addition to answering basic questions about how Zika invades cells, Linhardt's group also wants to come up with a way to block the interactions between the virus and placental sugars, protecting the fetus from harm.

The bacteriophages invaded the cells of the bacteria and destroyed them.

M2e is only slightly present on the virus, but in the lung epithelium cells where the virus ends up and starts multiplying, in the invaded cells, M2e becomes abundant.

But in some cases, the theory goes, leftover antibodies from the first illness can actually help the second infection invade cells, increasing the risk of severe dengue disease.

PS extracts block attachment of virus particles to host cells and thus effectively prevent the virus from invading cells.

Without the right receptor, the virus can not attach tightly enough to invade the cell and co-opt it for replication.

Lee demonstrated that the compound binds to lipids in the envelope of both the virus and the invaded cell.

When the virus tries to invade a cell that is «at rest,» the infection is aborted.

Scientists at Barrow Neurological Institute have recently made discoveries about use of a new technology for imaging brain tumors in the operating room — a finding that could have important implications for identifying and locating invading cells at the edge of a brain tumor.

Viruses have many more tricks for invading cells and replicating themselves than scientists originally imagined.

Every invaded cell in this assay is colored green and the assay showed that the cells on the left, lacking Id4, invaded much more than the cells on the right in which there was forced expression of Id4.

As with innate immunity, the adaptive immune system — the T cells and antibodies produced by B cells that target specific molecules on invading cells — contributes to pathology or may also fight against it.

When a virus invades a cell, one of the body's first signals that it's under attack comes from type I interferon proteins, which then rev up the production of hundreds of proteins that fight the virus.

Now, researchers can begin to investigate further how toxins, bacteria and viruses invade cells through these raft domains.

It is possible that the reason the negatively charged micelles were not found to be toxic was that they did not invade cells to the same extent as the positively charged micelles.

This new finding enables researchers to investigate how toxins, bacteria and viruses invade cells.

Scientists have developed new fluorescent probes that prove the existence of cell membrane structures called «lipid rafts», allowing researchers to study how toxins and viruses invade cells.

Farzan and his team discovered in their work with monkeys that HIV can't invade cells if those cells» two surface receptors are blocked — like a keyhole jammed with gum.

Flu viruses invade cells that line the lungs, but obtaining those cells from patients is difficult.

This 0157: H7 makes the headlines, mainly because it's a problem in the United States, but in the other parts of the world there are strains of E. coli that still make children very sick, and they kill millions of children every year, and they have lots of different ways of invading our cells and manipulating them.

That's what the vaccinia virus seems to be saying after it invades a cell and prevents its companions from following suit.

The results suggested a striking degree of similarity, especially in a region called the «fusion loop» that enables the viral proteins to successfully invade a cell.

When they invade a cell, their RNA infiltrates the host's genetic machinery, tricking it into making viral proteins.

The laboratory experiments also showed that the amino acid combination in the CDV - H protein typically found in domestic dog strains (519R / 549Y) was particularly good at invading cells with domestic dog receptors but far less efficient at entering cells with non-canid receptors, effectively making domestic dog strains less able to infect lions and spotted hyenas if they are exposed to them.

Furthermore, laboratory experiments demonstrated that strains with the rare amino acid combination 519I / 549H in the CDV - H - protein were significantly better at invading cells with lion or domestic cat receptors than cells with domestic dog receptors.

The number of invaded cells was counted after 24 hours.

Cortez investigates a family of enzymes (APOBEC) that exist in mammalian cells and damage viruses that have invaded the cell as part of an innate immune response.

French scientists have learned how Listeria monocytogenes, which causes a major food - borne illness, commandeers cellular transport machinery to invade cells and hide from the body's immune system...

Cells of plants and animals have evolved over millennia to produce molecules that specifically degrade RNA of viruses that invade cells while not attacking the cell's own mRNA.

When the virus invades a cell that is «at rest,» the infection is aborted.

Turmeric is powerful enough to reach the nucleus of cells and block inflammatory molecules invading the cell much like prescriptions with this purpose.

How It Works As An Antiviral The proteins actually prevent the virus from invading the cell.

These oral prescription antibiotics are used if the bacteria your pet has in their ears are invading the cells rather than living outside the cells: quinolones, azithromycin, and clindamycin.

After invading the cells, papilloma viruses insert their genetic information into the host cell's DNA (nucleic acid) and upset the normal regulatory mechanisms of cell division, so that the cell divides abnormally and more frequently.

The invading cells (also tri-colored spheres) attempt to bond together...

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If the pathogen or parasite gets by these immune cells, it may successfully invade the mosquito salivary glands.

She lived in a small village in Pakistan that was invaded by the Taliban, and at age 11 she utilized a cell phone to call a BBC reporter who wrote up a blog that would bring awareness to unknown atrocities being committed in her area, the Swat Valley.

«These attacks have grown in magnitude and they include attacks on security services, we have incidents where military officers have been lynched by mobs, we have instances where these vigilante groups calling themselves variously; Invisible forces, Delta forces, etc. invade police stations, break into cells and release suspects because they claim the NPP members are immune to any form of arrest in other words, they are living above the law because they happen to be members of a party living in power», he said.

«Researchers watch in real time as fat - encased drug nanoparticles invade skin cells.»

Introducing human prostate cancer cell lines into mice, Wu and his colleagues saw a particular enzyme called MAOA activate a cascade of signals that made it easier for tumor cells to invade and grow in bone.

Antibodies and killer cells, which are able to fight against pathogens invading our bodies, mature in these centres.

Understanding how margin length decreases from surgery to pathology — because of how the removed tissue shrinks and tumor cells invade surrounding tissues — can lead to better surgical margin planning and in turn a better prognosis, said corresponding author Milan Milovancev, a board - certified veterinary surgeon at OSU's College of Veterinary Medicine.

The «tumors» are really clusters of immune cells that have invaded sites to kill cancer, he says.

Eighty percent of the bacteria were no longer able to invade human cells, Mitchell says.

The «acid spit» chewed up surface proteins that the pathogen uses to attach to and invade human cells.

The term «in situ» means that the cancerous cells are contained within the breast's milk ducts and have not invaded the surrounding tissue.