Sentences with phrase «specific immune attack»

This also gives them an unique antigenic signal allowing very specific immune attack upon them.

Not exact matches

The treatment is a type of so - called CAR T - cell therapy — taking a patient's own immune cells, called T cells, genetically manipulating them to attack specific proteins on cancer, and infusing them back into the patient.

Previously, Derek Danahy of the University of Iowa and colleagues showed that sepsis disrupts the immune system by reducing the amount and function of memory T cells that circulate throughout the body, recognizing and attacking specific bacteria, viruses, or cancer cells.

Researchers at Penn State have combined the two approaches by taking biodegradable polymer nanoparticles encapsulated with cancer - fighting drugs and incorporating them into immune cells to create a smart, targeted system to attack cancers of specific types.

Although Coley couldn't explain precisely why or how his toxins worked, modern immunotherapy treatments help T - cells in the immune system to recognize specific cancer cells and attack them.

T cells, along with B cells and others, comprise the adaptive arm of the immune system, the body's second line of defense which quickly attacks and «remembers» specific pathogens.

Scientists identified the specific proteins secreted by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii that cause the immune system in mice to attack established ovarian tumors.

But if the immune system is indeed attacking the corneal protein identified by the Cantor group, the discovery could «in principle allow us to disrupt or arrest this component» of the attack, says M. Reza Dana, an ophthalmologist and ocular immunologist at Harvard Medical School, perhaps by inactivating the specific set of immune cells responsible for it.

The specific changes included a higher frequency of antibodies that attack one's own cells, called autoantibodies; fewer immune regulatory T cells, which were also less active in these individuals; and a higher frequency of memory T follicular helper immune cells.

Filled with tumor - specific proteins and implanted under the skin, the porous plastic disk David Mooney developed reprograms the body's immune system to attack tumors.

Flu vaccines train this adaptive immune system to attack specific viral strains.

These alleles are largely specific to each population, and they help in the «fine - tuning» of the immune response to the specific (local) parasites that attack the host in that population.»

The hallmark of vertebrate immune systems is their ability to «remember» an infection and mount specific attacks against microbial invaders the next time they come knocking.

Vaccines work by priming the «adaptive» immune system to recognize and attack a specific invader.

A better strategy, Watts and colleagues reasoned, might be to target BACE1 with antibodies, immune system sharpshooters that can be designed to attack very specific molecular targets.

Using this approach, immune cells are taken from a patient's bloodstream, reprogrammed to recognize and attack a specific protein found in cancer cells, then reintroduced into the patient's system, where they get to work destroying targeted tumor cells.

The idea behind a vaccine is simple: by exposing the immune system to a tell - tale piece of pathogen, the immune system is alerted to danger and mounts a specific attack against invaders that have this trait.

Cancer vaccines are designed to stimulate an immune response against tumor - specific or tumor - associated antigens, encouraging the immune system to attack cancer cells bearing these antigens.

CAR - T immunotherapy involves genetically outfitting a patient's immune cells with a new artificial gene, a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), which allows the cells to recognize and attack specific cancer cells.

To get there, researchers will need to resolve certain obstacles associated with CAR - T, including further customization of the technology to recognize specific / other tumor types, and predicting and limiting cross-reactivity, where CAR - T immune cells start attacking healthy cells as well.

Therapeutic vaccines are designed to elicit an immune response against tumor - specific or tumor - associated antigens, encouraging the immune system to attack cancer cells bearing these antigens.

Therapeutic cancer vaccines are designed to elicit an immune response against tumor - specific or tumor - associated antigens, encouraging the immune system to attack cancer cells bearing these antigens.

Allison is the person responsible for developing the checkpoint blockade approach to cancer immunotherapy: antibodies are used to target specific molecules on immune cells, which empowers them to find and attack cancer cells.

So, so many of the thyroid — so many thyroid conditions are actually brought upon by autoimmunity, meaning your immune system is making specific antibodies that are attacking the thyroid gland.

It is important that proper diagnosis through the use of testing for autoantibodies — immune proteins that attack specific cells or organs in the body — has been done to confirm an autoimmune diagnosis.

Antibodies themselves are highly specific proteins which are utilised by the immune system to locate and attack foreign objects to fight off the molecules, as they are perceived as «antigens», and antigens are substances which are capable of triggering the production of antibodies.

As a result, the immune system attacks and destroys specific parts of the body, such as the thyroid gland.

Our immune system is revved up and produces antibodies and specific white blood cells known as eosinophils to help attack the various critters.

Allergies are true immune system phenomena in which the cat's immune system attacks specific substances it has mistaken for invaders.

These immune cells that include macrophages, dendritic cells, and natural killer cells, directly attack invading microbes by various means depending on their specific function.

The immune system learns from the experience, and if in the future the cat ever comes under attack from real organisms of that specific disease, its immune system is already organized to recognize and repel them.

As it only exists on the Ethereum Blockchain, the system is immune to attacks such as DDoS or other address - specific attacks.