Sentences with phrase «specific adaptive responses»
While vigilance and flight behaviors may be adaptive for a wide variety of external threats, headshaking behavior may be a specific adaptive response to bees, namely, to knock bees away from the facial area.
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The UNC research team, led by Lemon and Jason Whitmire, Ph.D., Associate Professor in UNC's Department of Genetics, is now poised to investigate the complicated interplay of nonspecific «innate» and specific «adaptive» immune responses that ultimately control the infection and eliminate HAV from the host — processes that are not well understood for any of the five human hepatitis viruses.
They serve to contain viral infections while the adaptive immune response is generating antigen - specific cytotoxic T cells that can clear the infection.
When prescriptions were present, they tended to be focused on monitoring that did not include specific criteria for action, rather than on monitoring with action criteria or on adaptive responses, themselves.
Following transmission by mosquitoes, the early specific (also called adaptive) immune response to WNV is thought to be dominated by antibodies, and, consistent with this, the researchers found that older mice had less potent WNV - specific antibody responses during the early phase of infection.
Adaptive immune responses are initiated by the clonal selection of naive T lymphocytes, which recognize their cognate ligands through antigen - specific T cell receptors.
The group also has experience in the creation of custom panels for the analysis of pathogen specific immune responses with focus on innate and adaptive arms of the immune system.
Therefore the group studies with sophisticated imaging technology in vitro and ex vivo: i) the molecular mechanism driving the migration of HIV through the intestinal epithelial barrier; ii) the cellular targets in the mucosa, in specific macrophages and DCs, to identify the possible pathways to invade the tissue and disseminate to other organs; iii) the involvement of DCs and their functional properties in mediating adaptive immune responses at mucosal level; and iv) the role of antibodies with different effector functions in changing the pathways of the virus.
When accompanied by an antigen in protein form, generation of a strong, antigen - specific adaptive immune response characterized by CD4 T cells.
But can this specific functional demand result in MTU adaptive responses?
Based on human and animal research, it appears a variety of nutritional and botanical substances — such as adaptogenic herbs, specific vitamins including ascorbic acid, vitamins B1 and B6, the coenzyme forms of vitamin B5 (pantethine) and B12 (methylcobalamin), the amino acid tyrosine, and other nutrients such as lipoic acid, phosphatidylserine, and plant sterol / sterolin combinations — may allow individuals to sustain an adaptive response and minimize some of the systemic effects of stress.
Based on human and animal research, it appears a variety of nutritional and botanical substances - such as adaptogenic herbs, specific vitamins including ascorbic acid, vitamins B1 and B6, the coenzyme forms of vitamin B5 (pantethine) and B12 (methylcobalamin), the amino acid tyrosine, and other nutrients such as lipoic acid, phosphatidylserine, and plant sterol / sterolin combinations - may allow individuals to sustain an adaptive response and minimize some of the systemic effects of stress.
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The strategies (in both behavioral domains and emotion regulation) learnt in infancy, constitute an adaptive advantage because they promote faster and more specific responses within the EEA.