Sentences with phrase «measure immune cell responses»

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Despite having been vaccinated against the disease in 1989, which was 3 years before Sousa and her colleagues examined them, 58 % of the Indians had a weakened or nonexistent immune reaction in skin tests that measure cell response to the tuberculosis bacterium.

In addition to monitoring the response of injected melanoma tumors, we are also measuring the boost in the anti-tumor immune cells of patients after injection,» explained Amod A. Sarnaik, M.D., assistant member of Moffitt's Cutaneous Oncology Program.

To investigate that response in the context of HIV, the study grouped women by their CD4 cell count, a measure of immune system health.

Importantly, splenic titers of LCMV measured on day 7 postinfection are unchanged by immunization, indicating that despite functional enhancement in the CD8 T cell immune response, the virus is still not cleared by perforin - deficient mice that have been immunized (Fig. 2E).

It measures the inflammatory response and subtle changes in our immune cells (lymphocytes, neutrophils, monocytes, and eosinophils) as they release chemical mediators (a substance released from cells, e.g., cytokines, histamine, leukotrienes, prostaglandins, etc.), that regulate or cause physiologic consequences during an immune response to an antigen.