Sentences with phrase «key immune molecules»

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The Company focuses on discovering and developing small molecule drugs directed against tumor and immune cell targets that control key metabolic pathways in the tumor microenvironment.

One key gene encodes the making of a receptor called TREM2, a docking site for molecules on the surface of microglia and other innate immune cells.

Because Zika typically has trouble establishing infections in mice, the researchers used animals that were genetically altered so that they could not produce interferon, a key immune system signaling molecule, thus dampening the animals» immune response to the virus.

The study pinpoints an immune molecule called interferon gamma as the key to this link.

Jules Hoffmann of the University of Strasbourg in France first identified a key molecule, called Toll, involved in the innate immune response in fruit flies.

But by eliminating the sugar molecule, the new mutation also affects «a key region in the virus that is targeted by the immune system,» Hensley adds, making the vaccine less effective.

The HLA (human leukocyte antigen) is a system of genes responsible for regulating immune responses, and peptides are short chains of amino acids that play key roles in regulating the activities of other molecules.

Since T cells can only recognize neoantigens that are «presented» to them by HLA molecules of the immune system, a key step in making the vaccine is using computer algorithms to predict which neoantigen peptides will bind strongly to the HLA molecules for recognition by T cells.

Many of the key molecules and proteins that allow our immune system to work have been visualised in unprecedented detail with this technology.

A team of researchers based partly in South Africa has identified a key set of immune system molecules that helps determine how effectively a person resists infection with human immunodeficiency...

Antibodies are key effector molecules in health and disease as they harbor the ability to recognize specific molecular structures and, consequently, elicit immune responses.

Through his work with large patient groups, he has managed to show that narcolepsy is closely genetically linked to so - called HLA molecules, which play a key part in the immune system by presenting foreign substances to immune cells.

And, key regulatory hormones, such as insulin, are also proteins, as are many important molecules in our immune system and cell transport and messaging molecules.

The immune system creates two key molecules: interleukin and interferon.

What is known is that the immune system creates two key anti-cancer molecules called: interleukin and interferon.

The immune system creates two key molecules called: interleukin and interferon.