Sentences with phrase «primed immune system cells»

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The goal of the new approach is to convert that immunosuppressive environment into an «immunostimulatory» one, Goldberg says — a condition in which the immune system is primed for an offensive against cancer cells.

Joseph Wu of Stanford University, California, and his team have found that a mouse's immune system can be primed to recognise and target cancer cells by vaccinating them beforehand with stem cells.

In the hunt for genetic and environmental factors responsible for allergies, a prime suspect has been interleukin - 4 (IL - 4); this immune system protein tells white blood cells to make IgE antibodies, which recognize foreign substances and set off an immune attack.

This made it possible for their immune systems to produce sufficient amounts of CD8 T cells that were primed to attack and kill HIV - infected cells.

The new study revives suspicions that adenoviruses cause an immune «own goal», priming people's immune systems to produce CD4 cells — the very cells that HIV prefers to infect — and, worse still, to direct those cells to the parts of the body that are most vulnerable to the virus during sex.

And a new analysis of the stopped STEP trial, published online Monday in Proceedings in the National Academy of Sciences, provides a warning that the very vectors (adenoviruses, which are also employed in other vaccine development) used to distribute the inactive HIV strains can actually prime the immune system to be infected by recruiting susceptible T cells to mucous membranes, where they are more likely to be infected during sexual activity.

Other vaccines in trials target the blood - cell stage, and contain a parasite protein called AMA - 1, meant to prime the body's immune system to attack it.

Researchers at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) have discovered that innate lymphoid cells, early responders of the immune system, are primed at the DNA level for rapid action.

Vaccines work by exposing the body to the disease - causing agent or a fragment of it, which primes the immune system to produce a flood of antibodies that stick to the infecting organism and block it from entering cells.

Innate immune system discriminates between RNA containing bacterial versus eukaryotic structural features that prime for high - level IL - 12 secretion by dendritic cells.

Vaccines work by priming our immune systems - including antibodies and T - cells - so that they will be ready for action if a bug comes along.

This means our immune systems are primed to prevent another infection from the same virus, without attacking the body's own cells by accident.

While ZVex primes the immune system by triggering the generation of CTLs, GLAAS, by activation of CD4 cells, boosts the immune response by expanding and enhancing the function of CTLS and other anti-tumor mechanisms.

Macrophages are among the first layer of defense when pathogens invade the body, and their rapid response helps to prime our immune system for a secondary, durable immune response that is specifically targeted to the offending pathogens or cancer cells.

Preliminary evidence from the small clinical trial, led by William Gillanders, MD, also suggests that the vaccine primed the patients» immune systems to attack tumor cells and helped slow the cancer's progression.

It is well known that regulatory T - cells (the cells that are responsible for keeping the immune system balanced) are primed by endorphins.

Research indicates that drinking matcha may prime the immune system against free radicals by teaching disease - fighter immune cells to recognize and remember alkyl amines (toxins).