Sentences with phrase «response against viral infections»

In findings they call counterintuitive, a team of UCLA - led researchers suggests that blocking a protein, which is crucial to initiating the immune response against viral infections, may actually help combat HIV.

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The vaccine also induced a sharp rise in CD4 T - cells, whose job is to mobilize the antibody response and other immune elements against viral infections.

«Our findings suggest that different prostaglandins have different roles in antiviral immunity and that specific inhibition of PGE2 will be an effective therapy against influenza viral infection by boosting immune responses.»

«The observed increase in the ratio of cytotoxic CD4 T cells to CD4 helper T cells indicates that they are an important component of the protective immune response to viral infections and that their induction should be an important marker for successful vaccinations against certain viral diseases,» says postdoctoral researcher and first author Veena Patil, Ph.D. «But we really didn't know enough about their molecular profile and the mechanisms that drive their differentiation and maintenance.»

Our goal is to understand the acute immune response associated with viral infections to better identify and interdict these pathogens to increase blood safety, as well as to capitalize to access to subjects identified at the earliest point of infection to better understand the generation of effective immune responses against acute and chronic viral infections.

We have shown that most CD4 T cells die as a result of an innate immune response launched against cytoplasmic viral DNA accumulating as a result of abortive infection in these «bystander» CD4 T cells.

When functioning normally, your body's natural immune response is quite effective against treating bacterial and viral infections.

This new data will provide insight into the cat's immune response to infectious diseases and will help detect breaches in protection against viral infections.