Sentences with phrase «key immune mechanisms»

«Natural killer cells help to drive inflammation, insulin resistance: Study in mouse models of diabetes identifies key immune mechanisms in abdominal fat.»

«Confronted with sepsis, key immune mechanism breaks, scientists find.»

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Publishing online this week in Cell Host & Microbe, researchers at Johns Hopkins report the discovery of a key underlying immune mechanism that explains why to how our skin becomes inflamed from conditions such as atopic dermatitis, more commonly known as eczema.

In a study published in the journal Science, an international collaboration of investigators from Dana - Farber, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, and the University of Strasbourg uncovered a mechanism that allows key immune system cells to keep a steady rein on their more belligerent brother cells, thereby protecting normal, healthy tissue from assault.

A key mechanism used by our body to induce immune tolerance is by induction of regulatory T (Treg) cells, a subset of white blood cell that orders other T cells to stand down.

An international research team led by Université de Montréal medical professor Christopher Rudd, director of research in immunology and cell therapy at Maisonneuve - Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, has identified a key new mechanism that regulates the ability of T - cells of the immune system to react against foreign antigens and cancer.

Medical professor Christopher Rudd and his research team have identified a key new mechanism that regulates the ability of T - cells of the immune system to react against foreign antigens and cancer.

Among his most important accomplishments was the description of a key mechanism by which tumor cells can escape the host immune system.

iTeos focuses upon selected key suppressive mechanisms of immunity in cancer based on gene expression, association with immune cell subsets, protein expression in human tumors and biological validation.

This includes a bacterial aspect, the presence of enough minerals, and maintaining the proper pH. While we can most effectively address optimizing the pH of the mouth through immune supporting protocols like a nutrient dense diet, restful sleep, and healthy coping tools for stress, saliva clearly plays a key role in the actual mechanism of establishing what the pH of our mouth is going to be at any given time.

They also hypothesize that antibiotics may increase breast cancer risk because they inhibit key parts of the immune system that protect against cancer, as well as anti-inflammatory mechanisms.

Autophagy is the key intracellular immune mechanism that protects against bacterial and viral infections.

The logic is indirect, autophagy is a key innate immune mechanism against intracellular pathogens and protein restriction upregulates autophagy.

Similar to virus tropism, it is also a lock - and - key mechanism, in that the custom - designed antibody fits over «keys» on the surface of the invader and either destroys it outright or tags it for later removal by other soldiers of the immune system.