Infected or injured tissues release IL - 8 to attract bacteria - and virus -
killing white blood cells known as neutrophils, a process known as «recruitment.»
«Tumor cells often produce suppressive factors which essentially turn the brakes on tumor -
killing white blood cells.
Further searching turned up retroviral particles, which could
kill white blood cells and which also reacted with antibodies from infected patients.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
«Honestly, I thought: There's too many things that you just can't do in film — the finale where a black man
kills a
white family in cold
blood, and the audience is supposed to be like, «Yeah!»»
VIOLENCE / GORE 8 - A man confronts several other men who have
killed several people in a hotel and he draws a knife, and then slashes his own throat (
blood splatters on a
white sheet as he falls to the floor dead).
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).
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.