Sentences with phrase «on cytokine response»
Effects of glycemic index meal and CHO - electrolyte drink on cytokine response and run performance in endurance athletes.
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And so early efforts centered on making sure the gas tank was filled — priming the immune system with cytokines (such as the interleukins) or with immune - signaling proteins like interferon to rev up the tumor - fighting response.
Some of the cytokines turned the body's immune response on, while others turned it off.
In research on more than 700 families with an autistic as well as a neurotypical child, Pessah and his colleagues have found in the autistic child a significant reduction in immunoglobulins and an abnormal profile of cytokines, which are critical to immune response.
NF - κB is transcription factor that, among other functions, turns on genes involved in inflammation and immune response, and can be activated in the presence of pro-inflammatory cytokines.
LSHTM will provide a whole - blood assay to compare the potency of vaccine candidates based on their ability to induce innate and adaptive cytokine and chemokine responses, detected by capturing the signalling molecules on customised or commercial Luminex bead arrays.
In a typical immune response, for instance, inflammatory proteins called cytokines will be released by immune cells at a site of inflammation and then other immune cells will use these cytokines like a trail of breadcrumbs to home in on the site of infection and destroy the pathogens that are causing it.
VPA downregulated Th1 and Th17 cell responses and cytokine production in vitro and in vivo, whereas its effect on GVHD was regulatory T cell independent.
To study the effect of ageing on the ability of CMV - specific CD8 (+) T cells to produce type 1 - and type 2 - cytokines, interferon - gamma - and IL -10-producing, CD8 (+) T cell responses in the presence of CMV peptide antigen were measured in CMV - seropositive old and young donors.
Although vaccination induces an inflammatory response during pregnancy, the magnitude and the duration of response is much lower and shorter, respectively, for influenza vaccination than viral infection.27 Like infection, influenza vaccination during pregnancy has been reported to induce a transient increase in the levels of a number of proinflammatory cytokines, including interleukin 6, tumor necrosis factor α, and C - reactive protein.27 - 30 Studies on mice found an association between high interleukin - 6 levels during pregnancy and abnormal behavior and brain structure.19 However, in epidemiological studies, associations between maternal cytokine levels and ASD have been mixed.
The deranged biochemistry and tissue injury associated with these conditions stimulates ongoing production of inflammatory proteins and cytokines, chemical messengers that initiate and prolong the inflammatory response, creating a vicious cycle of chronic inflammation that may have devastating effects on patient quality of life.