Sentences with phrase «part of a human antibody»

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Another important feature of this antibody is that it acts on a part of the virus that is not normally targeted by the normal human immune response.

Approaches based on these five strategies have been used for streamlined, enhanced validation of more than 10,000 antibodies from more than 30 providers, targeting over 7,000 human proteins as part of the Human Protein Atlas prohuman proteins as part of the Human Protein Atlas proHuman Protein Atlas program.

That's why researchers are engineering plants to produce key parts of viruses and bacteria, in the hope that the human body will take them for invaders and start producing antibodies against the organisms.

In laboratory studies reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers found that these «neutralizing» antibodies prevented a key part of the virus, known as MERS CoV, from attaching to protein receptors that allow the virus to infect human cells.

To track down the location of proteins inside human tissues, Uhlén's team of about 100 scientists breaks the problem into two parts — finding antibodies that target individual proteins and then using those antibodies to hunt for proteins inside tissues.

The flu vaccine works by exposing the body to parts of inactivated flu from the three major different types of flu that infect humans, prompting the immune system to develop antibodies against these viruses.

«How antiviral antibodies become part of immune memory: Survey of activated B cells during Ebola infection, flu vaccination in humans.»

Most individuals tested had a strong antibody response to the seasonal H3N2 human virus - derived H3 subtype, part of that year's vaccine (2009 - 2010), but many also had strong measurable antibody responses to group 1 HA (avian H5, H6, H8, H12) and group 2 HA (avian H4, human H7) subtypes.