Sentences with phrase «response to the disease»

Understanding the role of temperament in immune responses to disease, disease progression, and sickness behavior may improve shelter management practices, and in turn, result in improved live - release outcomes.

A new type of easily customizable vaccine can be manufactured in one week, allowing it to be rapidly deployed in response to disease outbreaks, say researchers.

The first test looks for antibodies that have developed in response to the disease.

It is the first time the DEC, which represents 13 UK aid charities, has ever called for donations in response to a disease outbreak.

However, it also seems clear that at least at times there are situations in which these white blood cells are there when they shouldn't be and that they are the cause of the disease rather than part of a normal response to a disease process.

Vaccination is based on the principle, developed by Edward Jenner in 1796, whereby the body's immune system, inoculated with a killed or weakened pathogen, naturally creates a protective response to the disease.

«This is a promising approach to the fast response to disease, and could help counteract the negative impact of these conspiracy theories in future.»

Of course, there is typically a bell curve of response to any disease, but figuring out how these people control the virus is one of the most vexing mysteries of the AIDS pandemic.

Another interesting aspect to the work is that it demonstrates the possibility of adding new machinery to human cells to enable them to make therapeutic agents in response to disease signals.»

In response to questions by Senator Johnny Isakson (R — GA) about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tillerson praised the U.S. response to disease outbreaks, but suggested the ebola outbreak «exposed deficiency in the World Health Organization and how they responded.»

The difference between these two outcomes lies less with the pathogen and more with us as a global tuberculosis control community and whether we have the political will to prioritise a specific response to the disease.

We caught up with Guinan, now dean of the School of Community Health Sciences, to see how response to the disease has changed and what work is still left to be done.

There is no known cure for CDV, and quick response to the disease greatly improves your pet's chances at survival, especially for younger puppies.

The calcivirus vaccine will allow your cat to build an antibody response to this disease so that, if infected, your cat's immune system will be able to defeat it!

In Light, Air and Openness, written in 2008, architectural historian Paul Overy demonstrated that many of the features of modernist classics, and much of the furniture and the trends in interior design, are a direct response to disease, and a belief in the healing power of light, air and openness.

It is based on the scientific understanding and high - throughput analyses of human immune responses to disease - related proteins in selected populations including elderly with the capability to stay healthy during the aging process.

«Inflammation occurs when our immune cells release inflammatory messengers, or cytokines, which is a normal response to disease.

They even studied the twins» responses to flu vaccines (the medicine used to trigger a protective response to some disease - causing virus).

MIT engineers have developed a new type of easily customizable vaccine that can be manufactured in one week, allowing it to be rapidly deployed in response to disease outbreaks.

«Right now, our only control tool in response to a disease outbreak is use of insecticides,» Cornel said.

Federal health officials praised Dr. Bassett and the city's response to the disease, but they clearly failed to communicate confidence to the public.

A test for antibodies to the Lyme pathogen can aid diagnosis, but it works only after a patient has developed an immune response to the disease.

The only FDA approved Lyme disease tests, based on technology developed more than two decades ago, rely on detecting antibodies that the body's immune system makes in response to the disease.

But he warns that the gene could have undesirable side effects in some plants: «If we indiscriminately make a plant insensitive to ethylene, we may affect its response to diseases or to pests.»

We need inflammation because it's a response to disease or damage, but it's also associated with initiation of a number of degenerative diseases.

Also hindering the response to the disease: symptoms of other endemic diseases in the region like malaria and typhoid may initially appear similar to Ebola.

However, given their vast numbers in the human genome, researchers believe that they likely play important roles in normal human development and response to disease.

If the bug wasn't present in the Americas before European arrival, the locals may have lacked a strong natural immune response to the disease and made them more susceptible.

Presently there's only one Food and Drug Administration - approved laboratory test for Lyme disease: a blood test that relies on detecting antibodies, proteins the body's immune system makes in response to the disease.

A few individuals from three different kinds of fruit bats tested positive for an immune response to the disease or had pieces of its RNA in their cells, although no one has yet found the actual virus in these bats.

The component they were working on was CD74, which plays a crucial part in the immune system's response to disease - causing agents.

PANVAC contains gene additives that might stimulate a person's immune system to recognize and develop an immune response to the disease.

These treatments — used alone or in combination — fight cancer by activating and amplifying the body's immune response to the disease.

Although the researchers don't know the function of most of the 582 genes that were under such intense positive natural selection, they have identified about 50 that appear to be responses to diseases or changes in diet or environment.

At the same time, the drugs can spark a reduction in immune system cells known as T regulatory cells (Tregs), which usually tamp down the immune response to disease or infection.

When coupled with neurons generated from induced pluripotent stem cells collected from patients with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and ALS, this microscope becomes a powerful tool to study the cells and their responses to disease and treatments.

«Being able to monitor patient immune responses to myeloma antigens over the course of their disease, and to correlate these responses to disease load, means that our work really moves from the bedside to the bench and back.

COMPARE is a large EU project with the intention to speed up the detection of and response to disease outbreaks among humans and animals worldwide through the use of new genome technology.

Enhances immune response to disease.

We need inflammation because it's a response to disease or damage, but it's also associated with initiation of a number of degenerative diseases.

Integrating dietary evaluation into routine animal care is critical to preventive pet healthcare, as well as their response to disease and injury.

Most tests, however, are indirect measures of the body's response to disease.

The blood test looks for antibodies that have developed in response to the disease.

If the levels are in the «protective range» (understand that this is still a fuzzy number, due to the novelty of this technique in clinical practice), you can assume that certain indicators suggest that the pet has made an adequate immune response to those diseases.

Holly Block, the Executive Director of The Bronx Museum of the Arts has remarked «These artists give voice to perspectives that are too often suppressed, and the exhibition reveals how they have changed both the history of art in America and the response to this disease.»

«These artists give voice to perspectives that are too often suppressed, and the exhibition reveals how they have changed both the history of art in America and the response to this disease.»