Sentences with phrase «produced during the immune response»

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Flor M. Munoz, M.D., of the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, and colleagues randomly assigned 48 women to receive the Tdap vaccine (n = 33) or placebo (n = 15) at 30 to 32 weeks» gestation to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity (ability to produce an immune response) of the vaccine administered during pregnancy.

During infection this allows immune responses to better counteract the virulence factors produced by pathogens.

Estriol has been found to have beneficial immune - modulating effects in patients with multiple sclerosis, increasing protective immune responses and decreasing the number and volume of lesions seen in cerebral MRIs.22 Estriol is the primary estrogen produced during pregnancy, when it is made by placenta from 16α - OH DHEA sulfate (DHEA - S), an androgen made in the fetal liver and in the adrenal glands.23