Sentences with phrase «specific effects on the immune system»

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But when Rafi Ahmed and colleagues at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, gave the drug to mice infected with a virus, to probe its effects on specific parts of the immune system, they found it can have another effect.

The researchers demonstrate that the use of specific cytotoxic substances can also have a beneficial effect on the body's immune system.

They show that the syndrome has been reported sporadically since 1983, that it is not clustered into any specific group that might suggest a route of transmission, and that the effects on the immune systems of sufferers have been very varied.

It is possible, for example, to examine the effects of a recombinant bacterial toxin on infection, but it is more difficult to examine the role of specific virulence factors in neutralizing specific elements of the immune system, such as phagocytes.

If sufficient 1,25 - dihydroxyvitamin D is produced, it may exert paracrine effects on surrounding T lymphocytes, thereby regulating the tissue - specific immune responses.10 Some support for this hypothesis comes from recent experiments showing that mice fed diets high in vitamin D had significantly fewer clinical and pathological signs of EAE than mice fed a vitamin D — deficient diet.37 Central nervous system levels of 1,25 - dihydroxyvitamin D, but not blood levels, were higher in supplemented mice than in vitamin D — deficient mice and correlated inversely with disease severity.

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