Sentences with phrase «known as antibodies»

The type of B cells that the scientists tapped for the coveted proteins are known as antibody - secreting plasma cells (ASCs).

These studies have raised concerns that such antibodies could actually worsen Zika infection by a process known as antibody - dependent enhancement.

In a paper appearing in the journal ChemBioChem, Pentelute and colleagues showed that they could use this disarmed version of the anthrax toxin to deliver two proteins known as antibody mimics, which can kill cancer cells by disrupting specific proteins inside the cells.

SEATTLE, WA and DURHAM, NC — The HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) and the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) today announced the initiation of HVTN 704 / HPTN 085, also known as Antibody Mediated Prevention (AMP) or the AMP Study, a Phase 2b clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of VRC01, a broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibody (bnAb).

Not exact matches

In late clinical - trial findings published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the monoclonal antibodies known as solanezumab and bapineuzumab were shown ineffective at changing the downward cognitive trajectory of Alzheimer's patients.

As you now know, specific antibodies seek to destroy the foreign invader by releasing fighter T - cells which cause chronic inflammation of the intestines.

But I had it 4 years ago, and since I was no longer pregnant by the time I was asking about it, I was trying to figure out if the guideline was only about antibody transfer, which we were too late for, or if it had to do with waning immunity as well, in which case I need to get my family to get updated.

The early milk produced, also known as Colostrum, is an important source of antibodies, which helps your baby to develop immunity power during the years of early growth.

As nursing mothers we all know that breastfeeding is about more than nutrition and antibodies.

• Breastmilk contains special antibodies which help protect your baby against infections • Breastmilk is your baby's natural food, it's easily digested and enough on its own for the first 6 months • Breastfed babies are less likely to have eczema and diabetes or high blood pressure and obesity later on • Breastfeeding helps you and your baby to get to know each other • Breastfeeding means you'll return to your pre-pregnancy weight quicker • Breastfeeding helps give you stronger bones in later life and helps protect against breast and ovarian cancer • Breastfed babies are not as windy as bottle - fed babies • Nappies are not as smelly!

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(borrowed from Dr Kitty) Breech Twins and higher order multiples Previous CS Pre-Eclampsia Placenta praevia Cervical incompetence Previous late stillbirth Previous premature birth Grand multiparty Age under 18 Age over 35 Smoking Drug use Severe mental health issue Epilepsy Type 1 diabetes Type 2 diabetes Gestational diabetes Asthma GBS positive Abnormal antibodies Transplant recipient Congenital heart disease Known foetal abnormality Immunosuppressive medication MS Physical disability Intellectual disability Hypothyroidism Hyperthyroidism Previous shoulder dystocia Previous 3rd or 4th degree tear Sickle Cell anaemia BMI under 18 or over 35 at conception Previous massive PPH APH in current pregnancy HIV / AIDS Hepatitis B or C Active TB IUGR Oligohydramnios Polyhydramnios Child previously removed from custody because of abuse Uterine abnormalities such as uterine septum or double uterus Previous uterine surgery for fibroids Chronic renal problems Hypertension Auto immune condition Previous stroke or blod clot Cancer Domestic violence or abusive home Prisoners Homeless women

When my babies were sick (and usually I was as well), I knew I could pass on my immunities and antibodies to them.

«You were already sharing those germs with your baby before you even had symptoms, which means that as long as you've been breastfeeding, your baby has been receiving your antibodies before you even knew you were sick.»

I really enjoy nursing my daughter as for me it's very special, and I know that my antibodies will help her immunity.

And no wonder he tries so hard: moms» milk always contains a lot of extremely useful things for him such as antibodies, iron, calcium, vitamins, etc., and no matter how much time he is already breastfed — 1 month or 1 year.

To target liposomes to certain tissues or cells, such as tumour cells, a specific binder of a unique protein (an antigen) on the targeted cell, known as a monoclonal antibody, must be linked to the liposome surface.

Ixekizumab is a monoclonal antibody - a cloned antibody - which neutralises the inflammatory effects of an interleukin (IL) a protein in the skin which carries signals to cells - known as (IL)-17 A.

In tests in mice, a vaccine developed using human malaria parasite proteins — known as MSP -1-BBM — enabled the immune system to produce antibodies in the bloodstream.

They found that blocking ANGPTL3 activity with an investigative injectable antibody, known as evinacumab, reduced triglycerides by up to 76 percent and lowered LDL cholesterol 23 percent in human study participants, and largely reversed signs of atherosclerosis in a mouse models.

In theory, the only antibodies in play will be the ones responding to the parts of the stalk that the immune system recognizes, known as the «conserved domains.»

MGUS is caused by elevated levels of an antibody protein, known as M protein, that is found in 3 percent of people over age 50.

The reaction begins when an antibody activates a component of the immune system known as a mast cell, which then blasts out a barrage of chemicals.

There it passes on the fragments to other immune cells, which produce a distinctive fork - shaped antibody, known as immunoglobulin E, or IgE.

«We've shown that a specific type of these cells, known as follicular helper T (Tfh) cells are not only necessary, but are a limiting factor that differentiates between an average and a potent antibody response to HIV,» says Crotty, a scientific collaborator with the Center for HIV / AIDS Vaccine Immunology & Immunogen Discovery (CHAVI - ID), a major research consortium led by The Scripps Research Institute.

In laboratory studies reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers found that these «neutralizing» antibodies prevented a key part of the virus, known as MERS CoV, from attaching to protein receptors that allow the virus to infect human cells.

Known as a checkpoint inhibitor, tremelimumab is an investigational monoclonal antibody that «cuts the brakes» of the immune system by targeting cytotoxic T - lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA - 4), a protein that can switch off a patient's immune response.

Today in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, Vanderbilt University researchers published findings that the drug — a monoclonal antibody known as SYN0012 — shows promise in keeping heart valve leaflets supple.

To create that trigger, the researchers followed a process known as molecular evolution to develop an antibody that could be attached to the hydrogel particles to change their form when they encounter thrombin - activated fibrin.

Nivolumab is part of a class of immunotherapy drugs known as PD - 1 blocking antibodies.

Nivolumab, meanwhile, is an antibody that targets a protein known as PD - 1, which is also found on the T cell surface.

For example, the most advanced therapy — ZMappTM, a cocktail of three monoclonal antibodies — is specific for Ebola virus (formerly known as «Ebola Zaire»), but doesn't work against two related ebolaviruses (Sudan virus and Bundibugyo virus) that have also caused major outbreaks.

In the current study, the multi-institutional research team found that two of those 349 antibodies, known as ADI - 15878 and ADI - 15742, potently neutralized infection by all five known ebolaviruses in tissue culture.

In an attempt to do this, the researchers used a technique known as radioimmunotherapy in which radioisotopes (unstable elements that release radiation) mounted on antibodies (protein molecules akin to infection search - and - destroy missiles) are injected into the body.

«Compared to conventional methods, such as fluorescent antibodies against certain surface proteins, we know how the cells will decide three cell generations earlier,» reports ICB scientist Dr. Felix Buggenthin, joint first author of the study together with Dr. Florian Büttner.

The authors highlight an intriguing finding, which was that the level of antibody tinkering — known as somatic hypermutation — did not increase in volunteers» B cells over time after seasonal flu immunization.

According to Wilson, monoclonal antibodies from (deliberately infected) animals were routinely used in the first half of the 20th century to try to treat diphtheria (an upper - respiratory illness that killed roughly 15,000 people annually in the early 1920s until a vaccine was formulated against it in 1924) and tetanus (a potentially fatal infection also known as lockjaw, because one of the muscles it destroys is in the jaw).

«Tfh cells have recently been recognized as important players in the immune system, and we now know they are essential for almost all antibody responses,» said Crotty.

The engineered cells contain an antibody - like protein known as a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), which is designed to bind to a protein called CD19 found on the surface of B cells, including the cancerous B cells that characterize several types of leukemia.

The company tested that potential therapy, a type of protein known as a monoclonal antibody, on mice with their own form of FOP and lo and behold, they stopped growing unwelcome new bone.

Another one - third had other antibodies (known as antinuclear antibodies) that indicate the immune system is turning against the body.

One barrier to haemophilia therapy is the tendency of factor VIII to prompt the body into producing anti-factor VIII antibodies, known as inhibitors.

The fourth cohort — an ongoing trial known as PANGEA, Personalized ANtibodies for GastroEsophageal Adenocarcinoma designed by Catenacci and based at the University of Chicago Medicine — included 28 patients.

The other end, known as the constant region, binds to receptors on the surface of cells that can direct the immune system to respond in a variety of ways, all in the hopes of eliminating the target on the variable end of the antibody.

Antibodies have two important regions that give them their power: one end, known as the variable region, recognizes target proteins, such as those on the surface of a dengue virus particle.

They also reported that no patients developed antibodies against the factor, also known as «inhibitors.»

Immunotherapy is a promising strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer's that uses antibodies to stimulate the immune system to remove pieces of a protein called amyloid beta which accumulates in the brain (in deposits known as plaques) and is thought to be a major factor driving Alzheimer's neurodegenerative effects.

The gains were comparable to treatment with anti-cancer drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors, such as anti-PD-L1 antibodies.

antibody - mediated immunity - protection provided by antibodies (as opposed to cellular immunity) Also known as «humoral immunity.»

«For example, despite matching the ABO blood group antigens during red blood cell (RBC) transfusion, up to 45 percent of chronically transfused patients, such as those with sickle cell disease or thalassemia, develop antibodies to mismatched minor antigens on transfused RBCs; this process is known as alloimmunization.»