Sentences with phrase «makes protective antibodies»

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There are actually a few of those drugs now: Cervarix, made by GSK, which targets strains 16 and 18; Gardasil, made by Merck, which preempts those two killers, plus strains 6 and 11; and Merck's Gardasil 9, which primes the body's immune system to create protective antibodies against — you guessed it — nine types of HPV.

«Curbing fever, especially the first time a baby gets a vaccine, also seems to curb the immune response and the amount of protective antibodies that are made, the new study found.»

This causes her milk to produce antibodies in response and makes it specifically protective against those bacteria.

While La Leche was telling women they could breast - feed if they wanted to, medical research was finding more reasons they should want to: Formula may contain the proper nutrients, but there is something in a mother's milk - protective antibodies, hormones and growth factors in addition to proteins, fats, sugars, vitamins and minerals necessary for nourishment - that is «custom - made» for her child.

It will now make protective molecules [antibodies and antibody - like proteins] that it otherwise would not make.

It's a disease theory fit for a spy novel: Protective antibodies can turn double agent, teaming up with the dengue virus to make an infection more severe, even life - threatening.

The theory that antibodies protective against one type of dengue can collude with a different type of the virus to make a second infection worse was proposed in the 1960s.

Harris and colleagues are now working on characterizing the antibodies measured in their test, to learn what makes them protective or harmful.

«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.

Now, a research team has shown that a lab - made molecule that mimics an antibody from our immune system may have more protective power than anything the body produces, keeping four monkeys free of HIV infection despite injection of large doses of the virus.