Sentences with phrase «of human white blood cell»

The study's researchers infected macrophages, a type of human white blood cell, with a highly virulent strain of tuberculosis.

By analyzing chemical changes of the IRS - 2 protein in immortalized cultures of human white blood cells, it determined that IRS - 2 appeared in two different forms — «on,» which allows the signal to pass through, and «off,» which stops the signal from activating the cells into M2 macrophages.

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Unlike humans, who use their lymphatic systems to produce and transport white blood cells, tuna use theirs to move two of their fins, researchers report today in Science.

In human donor cells and mouse experimental models, the researchers demonstrated that TSLP specifically targeted neutrophils — white blood cells that constitute the first line of defense against bacterial infections.

ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS MIKOVITS DID was to employ a microarray — a small tray seeded with DNA from nearly every known virus — to flag viral DNA in human white blood cells.

• News of Embryonic Stem Cells • A University of Wisconsin team used human embryonic cells to form cells that manufacture platelets as well as red and white blood cCells • A University of Wisconsin team used human embryonic cells to form cells that manufacture platelets as well as red and white blood ccells to form cells that manufacture platelets as well as red and white blood ccells that manufacture platelets as well as red and white blood cellscells.

Even more promising, Cui has sampled a group of human volunteers and found that 10 to 15 percent have similar super cancer - fighting white blood cells.

«The protein Smurf1 functions in specialized white blood cells called macrophages in both mice and humans, thereby suggesting a conserved evolutionary pathway,» said Dr. Shiloh, co-senior author of the study along with Dr. Beth Levine, Director of the University's Center for Autophagy Research.

In her most recent paper, Ennis describes how her team looked at the effects of ultra-dilute solutions of histamine on human white blood cells involved in inflammation.

Using cells from mice and human livers, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute researchers demonstrated for the first time how under specific conditions, such as obesity, liver CD8 + T cells, white blood cells which play an important role in the control of viral infections, become highly activated and inflammatory, reprogramming themselves into disease - driving cells.

«If we can develop ways to manipulate this and encourage the white blood cells to recognise and expel organisms like this, we might be able to limit the spread of infection not only for Cryptococcosis but for other invasive pathogens that are a significant threat to human health world - wide.»

In laboratory experiments, Dr. Weinberger and his team inserted a green fluorescent protein, or «vector,» into the DNA of Jurkat T lymphocytes — a type of white blood cell that helps maintain a healthy human immune system.

The work, as detailed in the journal Stem Cells, shows that only a bit of creative manipulation is needed to turn skin cells into human white blood cCells, shows that only a bit of creative manipulation is needed to turn skin cells into human white blood ccells into human white blood cellscells.

Their work could pave the way for more effective prevention of heart attack and stroke in humans caused by atherosclerosis, in which artery walls thicken and suffer reduced plasticity due to an accumulation of white blood cells.

LA JOLLA — For the first time, scientists have turned human skin cells into transplantable white blood cells, soldiers of the immune system that fight infections and invaders.

Furthermore, saturated fat has been shown to have numerous positive effects on health, such as improving liver health by encouraging the liver cells to get rid of their fat cells, improving the immune system's response by helping white blood cells to recognize and destroy invaders more effectively, enabling the absorption of fat - soluble vitamins by acting as their carriers, as well as improving hormonal activity by providing the building blocks for a variety of hormones that are essential to human health.

Vitamin K2 induces certain kinds of human leukemia cells to differentiate, or turn into normal white blood cells.

A group of scientists recently published a paper describing what happened when they ordered some dioxin from Dow Chemical, grabbed some DDT while they were at it, and dripped the chemicals on some human white blood cells, with and without a variety of phytonutrients, to see if they could have a protective effect.

But they do have an immune system that's pretty similar to humans: dogs have white blood cells that fight infections, and they make antibodies to prevent disease, says Judy Morgan, a veterinarian and author of From Needles to Natural.

Orientin and vicenin are two water - soluble flavonoids that have been of particular interest in basil, and in studies on human white blood cells; these components of basil protect cell structures as well as chromosomes from radiation and oxygen - based damage.

In fact, a major immune - supporting activity of vitamin C is boosting glutathione levels in human lymphocytes, 41 cells that make up about 25 % of all white cells in the blood.

Finding the potency of these compounds in human white blood cells is just the starting point.

Although human studies are limited, animal and test tube research have shown time and time again that cordyceps has the capacity to destroy cancer cells, help normalize low white blood cell count occurring as a result of chemotherapy, and even make certain medications more toxic to cancer cells.

Forty extracts were therefore prepared from twenty - seven foodstuffs common to the Western diet, and the capacity of each to induce the secretion of IL - 6 and TNF - α from human monocytes was measured and compared» The capacity of these foods to cause white blood cells to secrete inflammatory signals was measured.

Yes, an evaluation of the cytotoxic and genotoxic activity of yerba maté on human white blood cells found it caused a significant increase in the rate of cell death.

Immunity One cup of spinach contains over 337 % of the RDA of vitamin A that not only protects and strengthens «entry points» into the human body, such as mucous membranes, respiratory, urinary and intestinal tracts, but is also a key component of lymphocytes (or white blood cells) that fight infection.

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High has experimented with transgenics in a number of multimedia, interspecies projects such as Embracing Animal (2004 - 2006), and she has staged competitions between human white blood cells through her ongoing Blood Wars tournamblood cells through her ongoing Blood Wars tournamBlood Wars tournaments.