Sentences with phrase «memory against the infection»

Some of the white blood cells go towards helping to destroy the current infection, while other white blood cells help to create memory against the infection - providing us with long term immunity.

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Once the body eliminates the invaders, it stores a «memory» of that particular invader for years, guarding against future infections.

While both groups of mice fought off the infection equally well, the second group of mice was not able to generate memory T cells to protect against future infection due to impaired NFkB signals within the cell.

After the infection, cell numbers diminish, but central memory T cells retain a long - term ability to defend against reinfection by microorganisms that carry the same antigen.

Preventing measles prevents immune memory damage and nonspecifically safeguards against many childhood infections.

Lindestam Arlehamn CS, Gerasimova A, Mele F, Henderson R, Swann J, Greenbaum JA, Kim Y, Sidney J, James EA, Taplitz R, McKinney DM, Kwok WW, Grey H, Sallusto F, Peters B, Sette A. Memory T cells in latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection are directed against three antigenic islands and largely contained in a CXCR3 + CCR6 + Th1 subset.

A new study, led by Aron E. Lukacher, chair and professor of microbiology and immunology, and Saumya Maru, an MD / PhD graduate student, has uncovered more details about what it takes to generate a good tissue - resident memory T cell response against repeat infections.