Sentences with phrase «key components of the immune system»

Li Gan, PhD, and her team showed that targeting key components of the immune system could be a new therapeutic strategy for a common form of dementia.

It is this stem section that doesn't change significantly from one antibody to another, and takes on the role of binding to other key components of the immune system to mount a defence against an invasive pathogen.

They linked these behaviors to immune pathways, implicating that targeting key components of the immune system could be a new therapeutic strategy for FTD.

Not being breastfed can disrupt optimal growth and development, especially in the first two years, when the key components of the immune system are forming to protect the child for life from chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.

Kipnis and his team first suspected a link between the immune system and social behavior when they found that mice lacking T cells, key components of the immune system, show little interest in their peers.

His team did not set out to study beverages — «We're immunologists, not tea researchers,» Bukowski says — but rather the actions of gamma delta T cells, long known as a key component of the immune system.

There were higher levels of three types of white blood cells that are key components of the immune system: leukocytes, monocytes and natural killer cells.

This is a key component of the immune system, when the body releases reactive oxygen species to fight against invading bacteria.

Edelman and Porter had laid the foundation for truly rational research into the structure and function of a key component of the immune system, for which they shared equally in the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

In fact, melatonin is so integral to your immune system that a lack of it causes your thymus gland, a key component of your immune system, to atrophy.3 Melatonin may even have a role in slowing the aging of your brain.

Infected dogs typically develop a fever and abnormal bleeding, and experience loss of white blood cells, which are a key component of the immune system.