Sentences with phrase «key immune cells»

The athletic adults also appeared to have healthier and younger - looking immune systems, at least when it came to an organ called the thymus that's responsible for generating key immune cells called T cells.

Functions as the site where key immune cells (T cells) mature into cells that can fight infection and cancer.

In April two studies of simian immunodeficiency virus, a kin of HIV that infects monkeys, reported that the virus swiftly infects and decimates key immune cells in the gut within days, not years, of infection.

HIV depletes key immune cells (infected T cell shown above).

Because of the bacterium's ability to burrow inside key immune cells called macrophages, some researchers use weakened Listeria with bits of tumor DNA attached to teach the body's immune system to recognize and destroy cancerous cells that might otherwise slip by unnoticed.

Overriding the body's defenses by suppressing the signaling between key immune cells, plague races through the lymphatic system, invading organs such as the spleen, the lungs, and especially the liver.

In a surprising discovery, the researchers found that newly transplanted lungs in mice were more likely to be rejected if key immune cells were missing, a situation that simulates what happens when patients take immunosuppressive drugs.

Key immune cells involved in causing this damage are macrophages (literally «big eaters»), which ordinarily serve to attack and rid the body of unwanted intruders.

«This study shows that sunlight directly activates key immune cells by increasing their movement.»

· Immune Function — key immune cell constituents of and how the immune system works and cancer and the immune system, causes of immune system impairment including food allergens, leaky gut, nutrient deficiencies nutrient - depleting medications and immunomodulation therapies including mistletoe, and immune system reboot;

Also serves as a site where key immune cells (B cells) multiply in order to fight harmful invaders.

The disease, called X-linked Severe Combined Immune Deficiency disorder, cripples a key immune cell and leads to fatal infections.