Sentences with phrase «of host responses»

A genomic approach based on analysis of the host response to infection has been investigated as an alternative.

The analysis also showed that the preponderance of host responses shifted rapidly from activation of genes involved in cell damage and inflammation toward those linked to promotion of cellular and organ repair.

«This improved understanding of the host response to HCV infection, and the HCV entry process, will provide new direction for the development of therapeutic treatments to either heighten this natural response, or generate mimics to target the virus specifically.»

Studies of the host response to viral infection have historically focused on protein - coding genes, thus our understanding of how the non-protein-coding transcriptome, including both viral - and host - derived noncoding RNAs, impacts host - virus interactions is limited.

Therefore, the mouse model allows the opportunity to study the long - term survival or demise of non-cultivable B. burgdorferi following treatment, and evaluate tissues for evidence of host response to determine the consequence of their presence.

They are not effective in detecting infections with immature worms, sterile worms, single - sex infections, or absence of a host response.2 Somatic IFAs, which look for antibodies to microfilarial somatic antigen, are nonspecific.

According to the American Association of Feline Practitioners, discordant tests may be a consequence of the stage of infection, the variability of host response, or technical problems with the testing system.