Sentences with phrase «other vaccinia viruses»
When other vaccinia viruses come knocking, long projections of another protein, actin, shoot out from the cell membrane, causing the virus to bounce off.
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The proteins work together to form a complex on the cell's surface that prevents other vaccinia virus particles from entering (a process called superinfection).
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He wonders whether it's not vaccinia, the virus used to induce smallpox resistance, but some other component of the vaccine that's prompting inflammation, perhaps bovine cells from the manufacturing process.
Cell biologist Michael Way of the London Research Institute agrees that other viruses may also use the vaccinia infection strategy.
The Pexa - Vec virus was originally developed by Michael Mastrangelo, MD, and Edmund Lattime, PhD, of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, who engineered the harmless vaccinia virus to infect only cancer cells and other rapidly dividing cells, as well as to stimulate immune activity, in hopes of boosting the immune response to tumors.