Sentences with phrase «mammalian immune system»

Preventing the disease by developing a vaccine seems difficult because of the ability of the trypanosome to thwart mammalian immune systems.

For one thing, there was a good chance the mammalian immune system would reject the foreign protein.

Working with small, fishlike and jawless creatures called lancelets, Xu and colleagues found a DNA transposon called ProtoRAG, an evolutionary relative of the genes for the mammalian immune system's RAG1 and RAG2.

The mammalian immune system has the memory of an elephant: If it encounters an invader it has fought off before, it responds with a much more vigorous attack.

Although these doubled proteins can identify and fight many foreign proteins within the mammalian immune system, their use in the emerging field of biosensors has been limited by their instability at high temperatures of about 60 to 70 degrees Celsius.

As such the HIV llama vaccination model is robust and reproducible and demonstrates the potential of a mammalian immune system to produce broadly HIV neutralizing antibodies in response to immunization.

The award is a continuation of support for a long - running, collaborative project to reveal the detailed workings of the mammalian immune system.

It is in this final tank that the engineered cells are stimulated to secrete the protein product — the monoclonal antibody itself, a protein derived from the mammalian immune system that can bind to a very specific target in the body, such as a tumor cell.

The current study suggests that the mammalian immune system has evolved such that each group of Th17 cells specific to a pathobiont bacterial species is paired with a second set of T regulatory cells that shuts down those Th17 cells, creating tolerance to the bacterial strain at hand.

Getting into specific details of each aspect of the mammalian immune system is beyond the scope of this article.