Sentences with phrase «response to viral infection»

I have devoted my career to understanding the T cell response to viral infection.

These DCs are the main producers of type I interferons in response to viral infections.

The scientists believe that the heightened immune response to viral infection in the mother's body may be responsible for disrupting the timing of microglia development.

Interferon alpha is a protein naturally produced by the body, as part of the inflammatory response to viral infection.

«Interferon is pivotal, the first response to any viral infection,» says Szabo.

«Drug designers interested in using RNAi to treat disease have worried that if RNAi is part of the mammalian response to viral infections, RNAi - based agents could compromise a human's immune response, producing unintended consequences.

To understand gene regulation, Panne works on a cell - free model of the human interferon beta response to viral infection.

In a nutshell, chronic disease such as Hashimoto's hypothyroidism develops as a result of an improper immune response to a viral infection due to other predisposing factors.

These enzymes, known as APOBECs, can be activated in response to viral infections.

In comparison with African strains, infection by the Asian strain of Zika virus more potently affected the p53 gene and genes connected with cells» responses to viral infection, such as interferons.

Based primarily at Harvard with Maniatis, tenOever developed a knockout mouse model to study a particular protein, IKKε, that's involved in the immune response to viral infection.

What emerged from their work was the finding that the girl had inherited two differently mutated copies of the gene IRF7, which encodes a protein that amplifies the production of interferon, a critical part of the body's response to viral infections.

Interest in studying tRNA fragments has been increasing swiftly as studies have shown that the fragments have regulatory roles and implicated individual fragments in cellular processes such as translation initiation, response to viral infection, response to DNA damage, etc..

These APOBEC3 enzymes are an essential piece of the immune system's response to viral infection, attacking viral DNA to cause disabling mutations.

Interferons are a family of naturally occurring proteins, produced in response to viral infection.

Dr. June: It's never been demonstrated that non-engineered killer T cells could do this for cancer, however they exhibit similar proliferation in response to viral infections.

Studies of the host response to viral infection have historically focused on protein - coding genes, thus our understanding of how the non-protein-coding transcriptome, including both viral - and host - derived noncoding RNAs, impacts host - virus interactions is limited.

Using mouse models and human cell culture models, Dr. Shresta and her team dissect the protective versus pathogenic mechanisms of the immune system in response to these viral infections.

Chakrabarti, A., Ghosh, P.K., Banerjee, S., Gaughan, C., and Silverman, R.H. RNase L triggers autophagy in response to viral infections.

Interferons are produced naturally by the body in response to viral infection.