Sentences with phrase «mouse immune system attacks»

She is now looking at how the mouse immune system attacks the parasite to see whether the host's response to the infection is the culprit.

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In Remodeling of the Mononuclear Phagocyte Network Underlies Chronic Inflammation and Disease Progression in Heart Failure: Critical Importance of the Cardiosplenic Axis, Prabhu and colleagues showed that immune cells that are stored in the spleen were intricately involved in the heart failure that follows a heart attack, or infarction, in a mouse - model system.

Now, thanks to the new mouse model, it will be possible to study how renal tumors are able to develop in an environment with a normal immune system, and how cancer cells manage to evade the immune system's attacks.

Scientists identified the specific proteins secreted by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii that cause the immune system in mice to attack established ovarian tumors.

But when he injected the mice with genetically identical reprogrammed stem cells, their immune systems attacked, destroying the cells.

They found these lesions were as small as those in the CD74 deficient mice, further supporting the hypothesis that the treatment was successful because it stops the immune system from attacking the brain.

In the new study, the researchers used a combination of four different therapies to activate both of the immune system's two branches, producing a coordinated attack that led to the complete disappearance of large, aggressive tumors in mice.

ES cells from a 129 mouse, on the other hand, were unable to form teratomas in B6 mice because the animals» immune systems attacked the cells, which they recognized as foreign.

By introducing a particular strain of bacteria into the digestive tracts of mice with melanoma, researchers at the University of Chicago were able to boost the ability of the animal's immune systems to attack tumor cells.

The mice had «humanized» immune systems, Gage says, meaning that their immune cells had been engineered not to attack human tissue.

Although progress toward harnessing the immune system to attack tumors has been «enormous,» he said, his lab and many others are seeing in more and more studies — in lab mice as well as patients — that «immuno - oncology» will not be as simple as stimulating T cells to attack tumors.

Having discovered a genetic «key» (called P - TEFb) that is important in both cancer cell growth and immune cell differentiation, they tested the drugs on a mouse model for uveitis, an incurable eye condition in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue leading to inflammation of the uvea (the middle layer of the eye).

November 5, 2015 Gut bacteria can dramatically amplify cancer immunotherapy By introducing a particular strain of bacteria into the digestive tracts of mice with melanoma, researchers at the University of Chicago were able to boost the ability of the animal's immune systems to attack tumor cells.