Sentences with phrase «kill white cells»

The vaccine encourages the body to create its own response to the «invasion» of the vaccine and stimulates the body's immune system, while traditional treatments, such as chemotherapy, kill white cells that defend the body and destroy infection.

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Also, along with white cells and antibodies, lactoferrin kills bacteria.

Rubinstein said checkpoint therapies work by cutting the brake cables on the white bloods cells that are inherently able to kill tumor cells.

«We found that a protein expressed by gut bacteria called Bacteroides works to prevent IBD by rapidly recruiting white blood cells to kill a cell of the immune system that is responsible for orchestrating IBD,» says McCoy.

«Tumor cells often produce suppressive factors which essentially turn the brakes on tumor - killing white blood cells.

After «inhaling» E. coli, for instance, the lung attracted human white blood cells to attack and kill the bacteria, a process scientists have long understood but never before witnessed in vitro.

He determined that a compound produced by the mold, which he called penicillin, could kill pathogenic bacteria but not white blood cells or human tissue.

This process helps to form both a bacteria - killing NET — which is comprised of infection - combatting white blood cells called neutrophils — and the fluffy, scattered ball that comprises a blood clot.

Further searching turned up retroviral particles, which could kill white blood cells and which also reacted with antibodies from infected patients.

Myeloperoxidase is an enzyme in leukocytes (white blood cells) that is effective in killing various microorganisms.

Approximately 1 percent of Caucasians lack a protein called CCR5 on their CD4 T cells — the white blood cells that normally kill invaders but that harbor HIV.

In most cases, infected epithelial cells are quickly killed by CD8 + cells, a type of white blood cells; only occasionally does the infection overwhelm the immune system, resulting in a lesion.

When the animals» immune systems identify a cancer cell, a genetic tweak allows their bodies to launch a massive attack of white blood cells that kills the budding tumor.

In 2012, Rik de Swart of Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and colleagues revealed that the measles virus kills large numbers of memory cells, white blood cells that prevent subsequent infections by the same pathogen.

The only blood components that contain DNA are white blood cells, but blood banks routinely irradiate donor pints with gamma rays to kill off these cells because they can trigger a rejection response in their new host.

One reason the bacterium has survived for so long is that it has developed a sophisticated mechanism for hiding in the body: it resides in white blood cells called macrophages, the very cells that would normally kill it.

The innate system — via stem cells in the bone marrow — mobilizes macrophages, which are a type of white blood cell that swallows and kills invading bacteria like Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) that causes TB.

«The current model of disease is that when Mtb bacteria are inhaled, they reach the end of the lung — the alveolus — and then are ingested by a macrophage, a type of white blood cell that swallows and kills invading bacteria,» Dr. Shiloh said.

Porphyrins in high levels are toxic, killing off the cells that produce them and turning the flatworms pale white.

This kills some but not all of the patient's white blood cells.

They identified signals that white blood cells use to control their behaviour, then one by one disabled those signals — discovering that one particular molecule called ERK5 could be manipulated to encourage white blood cells either to throw out pathogens better or to keep them inside and try to kill them for longer.

This hormone prevents white blood cells from ingesting bacteria and killing them.

«The metal implants are not connected to the body's bloodstream, so the white blood cells sent to fight the infection can not reach the implant and kill the bacteria.»

In the study, the biomedical engineers killed the cancerous tumor cells within days, by injecting liposomes armed with TRAIL (Tumor necrosis factor Related Apoptosis - Inducing Ligand) that attach to «natural killer» cells — a type of white blood cell — residing in the lymph nodes.

As seen with pseudo-coloured scanning electron microscopy, two cell - killing T - cells (red) attack a squamous mouth cancer cell (white) after a patient received a vaccine containing antigens identified on the tumour.

In general, immunotherapy tweaks T - cells, white blood cells that recognise and kill invaders, to be more reactive to cancer cells.

Existing vaccination methods depend on stimulating the body's immune system, so that white blood cells produce antibodies that attach to the surface of the virus and start the process of killing it.

Learn about how CAR T - cell therapy supercharges a patient's own white blood cells to kill cancer cells.»

HIV attacks and kills a specific type of white blood cell, called a CD4 cell.

Infected or injured tissues release IL - 8 to attract bacteria - and virus - killing white blood cells known as neutrophils, a process known as «recruitment.»

Hydrogen peroxide is a compound that white blood cells release when they sense an infection, in order to kill bacteria and summon T cells and other immune cells to mount an immune response.

As a consequence unconverted azathioprine builds up in their bone marrow, killing developing white blood cells and leaving the individual vulnerable to infection.

HIV attacks and kills a specific type of white blood cell, called a CD4 cell.

What that does, it not only will tend to kill off viruses and candida and bacteria, it will also energize white blood cells and red blood cells through the energy that's radiated from the ultraviolet apparatus.

Second, alcohol consumed in higher doses can reduce the ability of white cells to kill germs by suppressing their ability to multiply.

According to nutrition expert K.C. Craichy, just 100 grams of sugar inhibits our white blood cell's ability to kill the pathogens in our body by up to 90 percent.

-- Sugar suppresses the ability of white blood cells to kill pathogens.

When our body is fighting an infection, our white blood cells create «free radicals» when they use antimicrobial substances like hydrogen peroxide to kill bacteria and viruses.

The flavonoids found in white tea effectively kills cancer cells as well as some prescription drugs.

Deficiency of either selenium or iodine leads to an immediate reduction in the killing activity of white blood cells.

Iodine along with the enzyme myeloperoxidase is needed to produce respiratory bursts — the burst of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that white blood cells use to kill pathogens.

In fact, our white blood cells kill bacteria and viruses by releasing hydrogen peroxide and other compounds we call free radicals.

White blood cells destroy bacteria by secreting a substance that kills them.

When the body has a higher temperature, it makes oxygen more available to white blood cells that kill the very bugs that are making us sick.

A more recent treatment option has been to administer a bone marrow transplant following successful chemo, in hopes that new white blood cells produced by the donated marrow will be able to find and kill the cancerous blood cells circulating in the patient's body, he said.

Carved words, like a prisoner's inside a cell, through layers of peeling yellow, then blue, then white, the fresh words sliced through decades of paint: Kill me now.

Giving this medicine for 4 weeks prior to the Immiticide injections (to kill the heartworms) causes the worms to become weaker (thus more susceptible to being killed by the medicine) and acutally physically smaller (so less junk to clog up the blood vessels, and less for the white blood cells to have to clear out).

After infecting a puppy, parvovirus enters the puppy's bone marrow and kills white blood cells which are needed to protect the puppy against disease.

The virus attacks and kills these cells, causing diarrhea (often bloody), depression, and suppression of white blood cells — which come from another group of rapidly dividing cells.