Sentences with phrase «more immune mechanisms»

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What we're hoping, therefore, is that the new mechanisms we've discovered will help in the development of more targeted drugs, where existing immune - modulating drugs can also be of interest.»

Publishing online this week in Cell Host & Microbe, researchers at Johns Hopkins report the discovery of a key underlying immune mechanism that explains why to how our skin becomes inflamed from conditions such as atopic dermatitis, more commonly known as eczema.

In a study published in the journal Science, an international collaboration of investigators from Dana - Farber, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, and the University of Strasbourg uncovered a mechanism that allows key immune system cells to keep a steady rein on their more belligerent brother cells, thereby protecting normal, healthy tissue from assault.

Professor Nutt said increasing our knowledge of the mechanisms that controlled the immune response was vital for understanding how immune and inflammatory diseases arise and, ultimately, developing more effective treatments.

«The practice of the Wim Hof Method may lead to tonic changes in autonomous brain mechanisms, a speculation that has implications for managing medical conditions ranging from diseases of the immune system to more intriguingly psychiatric conditions such as mood and anxiety disorders,» said Diwadkar, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences.

Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that a novel laboratory tool that lets them find virus mutations faster and more efficiently than ever before has identified a biological mechanism that appears to play a big role in helping HCV evade both the natural immune system and vaccines.

In a second mechanism, the immune system of the patient also destroys the «marked» tumor in a more efficient way.

«More studies are required in order to make these important associations in terms of the effects of supplementation on cardiometabolic syndrome, the immune and inflammatory mechanisms of cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women, and their quality of life,» Nahas said.

«This is not, in my mind, an approach to take during chronic infection, because once infection has been established, the mechanisms of immune activation become much more complicated,» observes Martin Markowitz, staff investigator at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City.

Therefore, it is important that more research is conducted into the mechanisms which lie behind the connection between a person's immune system and mental health,» says Michael Eriksen Benrós.

Therefore, it is naturally important that more research is conducted into the mechanisms which lie behind the connection between the immune system and mood disorders,» says Michael Eriksen Benrós.

Rabbit monoclonals provide better antigen recognition because the rabbit immune system generates antibody diversity, and optimizes affinity by mechanisms that are more efficient than those of mice and other rodents.

A full accounting of what is going on under the hood still remains to be accomplished, but the most plausible mechanism appears to be increased stem cell activity, while effects on cancer may involve a more active immune system - though that is only speculative theory at this point.

Follow - up studies will look more closely at what length of time immune activation starts to become a problem and what mechanisms are responsible for both the improvement and eventual worsening of Alzheimer's pathology.

A team of scientists led by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) international research scholar has discovered the immune system mechanism that causes some mice to be more susceptible to mousepox...

More recently, we have learned that it is critical to understand the biology of cancer plasticity to identify the mechanisms that allow tumours to resist or escape immune control.

Unfortunately, despite all the knowledge the scientific community has regarding immune mechanisms against cancer, there is still a lot more to dig in.

Research Focus: I dedicate my time and effort to develop high - throughput sequencing technologies such as single cell transcriptomic, ChIP - Seq, ChIA - PET, and many more... The scientific rational is to understand better and with a different angle, the mechanisms of epigenetic regulation of gene expression in (rare) immune cells, pathologically relevant in many diseases such as asthma, SLE, tuberculosis...

And then, surprisingly enough, which maybe you know more about this than I do, but it's interesting that a lot of these medi — medications, I don't know the mechanism but like antidepressants like Cymbalta, Prozac, Zoloft, you've got the immune modulators like Humira and Enbrel.

The psycho to whom director Refn more than subtly likens his protagonist, however, is Clockwork Orange's droog Alex, another antisocial misfit immune to the mainstream's socializing mechanisms.