Sentences with phrase «other immune cell types»

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CRAC channels control the entry of calcium into immune and other cell types, and calcium is an important intracellular signaling molecule that modulates cytokine production and the immune response.

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Hookworm infections seem to provoke a mix of two different immune cells: type 1 T cells, which instruct other cells to directly attack pathogens, and type 2 T cells, which tell cells to produce antibodies.

Professor Dan Davis and his team at the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research, working in collaboration with global healthcare company GSK, investigated how different types of immune cells communicate with each other — and how they kill cancerous or infected cells.

Researchers developed a new type of cell transplantation to treat mice mimicking a rare lung disease that one day could be used to treat this and other human lung diseases caused by dysfunctional immune cells.

Copeland's team also noted that these mice suffered from a host of immune - related problems, the most crippling being a flood of macrophages — a type of white blood cell — damaging the lungs and other organs.

IL - 17 attracted other immune cells called neutrophils — the most abundant type of white blood cell — to the conjunctiva and induced the release of anti-microbial proteins into the tears.

Once lymphocytes find such invaders within the lymph node, they destroy them in collaboration with other types of immune cells.

«Although right now we are focusing on developing a cancer vaccine, in the future we could be able to manipulate which type of dendritic cells or other types of immune cells are recruited to the 3D scaffold by using different kinds of cytokines released from the MSRs,» said co-lead author Aileen Li, a graduate student pursuing her Ph.D. in bioengineering at Harvard SEAS.

A potential solution to this problem is to reprogram other cell types into functional beta - like cells, which can produce insulin but are distinct from beta cells and therefore are not recognized or attacked by the immune system.

In patients with severe asthma, however, NK cells are disabled from resolving inflammation, and become outnumbered by other types of immune cells that provoke inflammation.

The 1 - 3 millimeter granuloma also contains fibrous and necrotic tissue as well as a number of other types of immune cells, making it an extremely complex structure.

She found that the brain depends on a type of immune cell known as the T cell, which normally kills infected cells or leads other immune cells in a campaign against foreign invaders.

In a matter of weeks, the single stem cell repopulated the mouse's blood and immune system but did not create other types of cells.

This approach is also being used to reverse engineer even more complex gut environments by integrating other cell types, such as immune cells, neuronal cells, and commensal microbes into the device.

It's uncertain whether other cell types, such as the immune cells that enter the lungs after an attack, have adenosine receptors — and scientists don't even know the source of the adenosine.

«This technique could be applied to other cell types of the immune system — anywhere the receptors on the membrane are renewed often,» says Griessinger.

Now, a collaboration between the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Science (IMS) and other institutions in Japan and Europe have found that in immune cells, simply blocking a transcription factor that leads to differentiation is sufficient to keep cells in a multipotent stem cell - like state where they can continue to proliferate and can later differentiate into various cell types.

He agreed with Shankar that the RNAi method would not lead to a stand - alone treatment «The virus goes beyond T cells,» he says, noting that it attacks several other types of immune cells.

Once the intruder has been bound by the BCR, the B cell is activated and, together with other immune cells, can fight off a range of different types of pathogens.

The results show that generation of an optimal immune response to cancer requires cooperation between two types of memory T cell — one circulating in the blood and the other resident in tissues — that can be reactivated with current immunotherapy strategies.

While many types of immune cells are involved in obesity - induced inflammation, «NK cell modulations do not change any of the other immune cells,» Lee says.

In further studies, they plan to explore the role of autophagy in immune reactions toward other tumor cell types, to determine whether such therapies might be effective in a broad range of cancers.

A three - pronged strategy — to knock out renegade immune cells, replace them and revitalize other cells that make insulin — might reverse type 1 diabetes.

Those same mechanisms allow yeast to evade a type of human immune cell that looks and acts just like an amoeba (similar cells are also found in other animals).

Researchers from immune biology professor Annette Oxenius's group have now discovered what keeps NK cells from killing off their «colleagues from the other department» of the immune system: healthy CD8 + cells are able to detect the immune messenger substance type 1 interferon, which binds to specific receptors on the surface of these immune cells and thereby conceals their stress.

Signals from pathogens, tissue factors, and other immune cells are involved in defining the immune phenotype of these cell types.

Depending on characteristics such as how many tumor cells, blood vessel cells, and immune cells are touching each other, the tumor microenvironment can nearly triple the chance that a common type of breast cancer (estrogen - receptor positive / HER2 negative) that has reached the lymph nodes will also metastasize, Condeelis and colleagues showed in a 2014 study of 3,760 patients.

For instance, the team uncovered a new type of chemical - sensing tuft cell (which helps alert the immune system to infection or other forms of injury) that displayed markers previously thought to be exclusive to immune cells and which may help sound the alarm about allergens and invading parasites.

Until now, however, achieving a similar feat in human cells has eluded scientists — partly because activating iNKT cells released different types of cytokines: some stimulated an immune response, while others inhibited it.

Our Intestine - Chip also allows researchers to culture intestinal epithelial cells alongside other cell types, such as immune cells, and analyze how these different cell types interact.

To get there, researchers will need to resolve certain obstacles associated with CAR - T, including further customization of the technology to recognize specific / other tumor types, and predicting and limiting cross-reactivity, where CAR - T immune cells start attacking healthy cells as well.

«We showed that there are markers on these stomach tumour cells that indicate they would be responsive to a type of immunotherapy called immune checkpoint inhibitors, in particular anti-PDL1 immunotherapy, which is already used with great success in the treatment of melanoma and certain other cancers.

Compared with other viral vehicles, the immune system tends to ignore AAV, and the carrier is able to target specific cell types in the body.

Compared to other types of immune cells, Natural Killer cells kill these cells quickly.

In type 1 diabetes, why does the immune system begin to attack beta cells and not other cells in the pancreas or in other organs or tissues?

On the other hand, boosting the ability of Tregs to suppress other types of immune cells could prevent autoimmunity, by preventing these cells from attacking organs and other tissues.

So for our model of this disease, which we are currently developing, we have to generate a variety of other brain cell types besides neurons that are thought to foster immune responses in the brain.

They instruct other types of immune cells on when to stop and when to go.

Squamous cell carcinomas in people of color, especially African Americans, are often associated with other conditions (such as a non-healing wound or immune suppression), he says, and this skin cancer type has a worse prognosis than when it strikes fair - skinned people.

If someone has an immune response to wheat, but it does not result in celiac, they will manifest that in other ways, such as becoming Type 1 diabetic because the immune response has killed the islet cells, or their thyroid becomes inactive or cancerous... or their spleen swells up, or they manifest arthritis or rheumatic illness of some kind....

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While some believe that these tumors are a soft tissue sarcoma, others have categorized malignant histiocytosis as a type of histiocytic sarcoma, which may be influenced by an abnormally large amount of histiocytes, a type of white blood cells that are integral to immune system functions.

The mutations may be in genes governing some aspect of the immune system but they might also be in tumor suppressor genes whose job it is to seek out and destroy cancerous cells, genes that control cell division, genes that control normal cell death, and other types as well.