Sentences with phrase «make immune cells»

This bacterium communicates with our cells to make immune cells called T - regulatory cells.

In future research supported by the National Institutes of Health, the researchers will study exactly how mucosal fibroblasts make immune cells more «infectable», which could ultimately lead to new targets for preventing HIV.

FlaB appears to be especially good at activating a secondary molecule, TLR5, that seems to make immune cells more aggressive, «changing them from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde,» the researchers wrote.

Jerrold Olefsky and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, killed the bone marrow cells in mice that make immune cells called macrophages.

This makes immune cells a perfect active delivery system for Yang's nanoparticles.

They did this not only by trans - infection, but also by making the immune cells more prone to infection by HIV.

Not exact matches

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.

giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.

Also amazing is the way the immune system distin - guishes between foreign sub - stances and the hundreds of cell types that make up our body.

The nutrients in acai stimulate the immune system, making your body stronger while fighting off colds, flu, and bacteria; Acai also contains imressive doses of omega - 3, omega - 6 and omega - 9 fatty acids to regulate hormone production and cell regeneration.

This article is questionable as it has no links or actual references to the studies it talks about, like someone above has mentioned also there is no information on how the diagnosis were made, and lastly it does not take into account that celiac disease is NOT an allergy, it is an auto immune disease where the body attacks its own cells confusing them with gluten proteins, it is not about tolerance, I would not be trusting this information, do lots of research on your own from legitimate scientific sources before making a decision.

Breast milk contains antibodies and other cells that boost your baby's immune system, making them less likely to get sick.

The replicas — the copies of the maternal immune cells that the baby makes — will provide immunity to the baby for life.»

«Surprisingly, we saw that even liposomes with a protective coating meant to make them invisible to the immune system start exiting blood capillaries and sticking to skin cells within five minutes of injection,» Simberg says.

And a new analysis of the STEP trial, published last November in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, provides a warning that the very vectors (adenoviruses, which are also employed in other vaccine development work) used to distribute the inactive HIV strains can actually make the immune system more vulnerable to infection by recruiting susceptible T cells to mucous membranes, where they are more likely to be infected during sexual activity.

By dissecting the heritage of these cells, we can find new targets to tackle a range of conditions including infectious diseases, cancers and immune disorders, and even make vaccines more effective.»

Bone marrow transplants are sometimes needed to treat immune diseases that attack these stem cells, or in certain types of anaemia, in which the body can't make enough blood cells or clotting factors.

Blood from people affected by the 2014 Zika outbreak in French Polynesia provides the first evidence that the virus can make the immune system attack nerve cells

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.

«Therefore, inhibiting NF - kB will might make tumor cells more vulnerable to elimination by the immune system.»

Antibodies and T cells against the protein could cause the immune system to attack cells carrying it, making gene therapy ineffective.

Many people with rheumatoid arthritis make too much TNF, which recruits immune cells that damage the joints and keeps the body in a perpetual state of inflammation.

«Our immune system is made up of specialised cells that move through blood and tissue, preventing disease and fighting infection by distinguishing between what is the body's own healthy tissue and what is foreign.

The researchers went on to reprogram these immune cells, making them lose their pathogenic potential.

The four children also had more of the types of species that are known to trigger gut inflammation, a possible prelude to type - 1 diabetes, in which the body's immune system mistakenly produces antibodies that attack and destroy the beta cells of the pancreas that normally make insulin.

The immune system can reveal so much because the cells that make it up are so diverse.

Diabetes researchers are considering various replacements for insulin injections: Transplanting new pancreatic islet cells that make insulin, coaxing the patient's own islets to regenerate, or treating diabetics early in the disease with immune - suppressing therapies to prevent their body from destroying the rest of their pancreatic islets.

Type 1 diabetes occurs when the body's immune system destroys the cells making insulin, the substance that enables glucose in the blood to gain access to the body's cells.

What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.

This approach has immense promise, for instance, it is being used to alter immune cells to make them better at killing cancers.

But if we changed the code of the host cells, it would thwart the virus's ability to replicate, and so make the host immune.

The personalized vaccine is made from patients» own immune cells, which are exposed in the laboratory to the contents of the patients» tumor cells, and then injected into the patients to initiate a wider immune response.

Then it infects various cells of the immune system, which it tricks into making more copies of itself.

That makes sense, Swanton says, because if the immune system targets trunk antigens, it's hitting most of the cancer cells, rather than «nipping off little branches».

In type 1 diabetes, beta cells in the pancreas that make insulin — the hormone that keeps our blood glucose levels at a safe concentration — are destroyed by the immune system.

In the hunt for genetic and environmental factors responsible for allergies, a prime suspect has been interleukin - 4 (IL - 4); this immune system protein tells white blood cells to make IgE antibodies, which recognize foreign substances and set off an immune attack.

Epigenetic therapies are thought to work in two ways to fix these errors in cancer cells — by correcting the «position» of the gene switches and by making the cell appear as though it's infected by a virus, triggering the immune system.

2011: Another success makes headlines: David Porter and Carl June report that immune cells modified with gene therapy had cured two terminal leukemia patients of their cancer.

«We already know how to stimulate the immune system to make CD8 T cells by vaccination.

This made it possible for their immune systems to produce sufficient amounts of CD8 T cells that were primed to attack and kill HIV - infected cells.

A recent study published in Cell revealed that, while the related parasite Tritrichomonas musculis makes the intestine susceptible to both colitis and colorectal cancer, it induces an immune response that protects mice against Salmonella infection.

«What's remarkable is that B cells are the ones making antibodies and autoantibodies, so they're really crucial in both protective immune responses and autoimmunity,» said Montserrat C. Anguera, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences in Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine and the senior author on the study.

Immune messenger molecules called cytokines and certain types of immune cells race to the bite site, making it inhospitable for the parasite.

The researchers were able to reverse these epigenetic changes with the use of an FDA - approved drug, forcing the cancer cells out of hiding and potentially making them better targets for the same immune therapy that in the past may have failed.

The bacteria produce substances that irritate the gut lining and make it more porous, admitting immune cells that trigger inflammation.

A healthy gut depends on a balance of inflammatory and tolerant T cells, which make up part of the adaptive immune system.

The researchers noted that the two studies made strikingly similar findings despite the fact that they focused on different types of immune cells.

This protective effect seems to suggest that infections earlier in life may stimulate the immune system to deal with future infections and cancerous cells more efficiently, say the British researchers who made the discovery.

Further experiments suggested that the production of high levels of cell wall - associated GAG makes A. fumigatus more resistant than A. nidulans to neutrophil killing by neutrophil extracellular traps, or NETs (NETs are are networks of extracellular fibers, composed of DNA and proteins secreted by immune cells called neutrophils, that bind and trap various pathogens).

For example, researchers have found that immune cells living in plaques make prostaglandins, key players in inflammation that make the plaques more vulnerable to rupture.