Sentences with phrase «specific immune therapy»

On the one hand, the treatment of rats after a stroke involves specific immune therapy, where so - called Nogo proteins are blocked with antibodies.

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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.

About 3 years ago, when the medications would no longer keep it under control and he was prescribed a treatment that he deemed unacceptable (immune - suppressant therapy), he found the «Specific Carbohydrate Diet».

So he joined GSK Vaccines in 2010, as a molecular biologist in the company's Antigen - Specific Cancer Immunotherapeutic program, which aims to harness the immune system for the development of well - tolerated cancer therapies.

Antigen - specific therapy using insulin before the development of autoantibodies may induce protective immune responses that prevent the emergence of autoimmunity and subsequent type 1 diabetes in genetically at - risk children, according to background information in the article.

Inhibitory control Other strategies being pursued to prevent the formation of inhibitors of clotting - factor therapy include immunosuppressants and drugs that deplete specific immune cells.

These cells, in turn, instruct factor - VIII — specific immune cells to become tolerant to the coagulation protein, resulting in suppression of misdirected antibody responses to the replacement therapy — all without affecting the rest of the immune system.

And, in fact, these doctors and researchers are finding incredible success with this strategy; for example, PD - 1 inhibitors remove this «cloak» that cancers use to hide from the immune system, and CAR - T cell therapies use specially engineered T - cells to seek cancer - specific proteins and destroy the cancer cells to which they are attached.

«Our findings suggest that different prostaglandins have different roles in antiviral immunity and that specific inhibition of PGE2 will be an effective therapy against influenza viral infection by boosting immune responses.»

Therapies based on immune cells, which target particular tumor molecules, are more specific, but they are not effective against a variety of tumors.

New research into Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)-- also known as motor neuron disease — shows that specific immune cells may help slow progression of the disease, an important step towards developing new therapies to treat patients.

Investigating conventional MHC - restricted T cell responses specific for tumor - associated peptide antigens, and local immune contextures, in mediating cancer control in patients following neoadjuvant (per - surgery) therapy.

My personal goal is to deeply understand how the immune system recognizes cancers and eliminates it, and then to use that knowledge to develop increasingly specific and powerful therapies to control cancer.

«Having a very efficient and practical way of generating patient - specific stem cells, which unlike human embryonic stem cells, wouldn't be rejected by the patient's immune system after transplantation brings us a step closer to the clinical application of stem cell therapy,» says Belmonte, PhD., a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory and director of the Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona, Spain.

The mission of the ITN is the development of new immune tolerance therapies — highly specific treatments that reprogram the immune system to inhibit disease - causing immune responses while keeping beneficial, disease - fighting immune responses intact.

Through long - established collaborations in Durban and Kimberley, these studies in particular seek to define: the immune responses that are effective in control of HIV infection; the impact of HLA - mediated selection pressure on HIV at the individual and population level; the mechanisms of HIV non-pathogenicity; the nature and consequences of ontogeny of the virus - specific immune response; and finally the prospects for interventions including antiretroviral therapy, alone or in combination with broadly neutralising antibodies and / or T - cell vaccines, to achieve HIV eradication.

The major benefit of using iPS cells to treat AMD is that developing a patient specific therapy may help to eliminate the problems associated with immune rejection.

Little research has been performed to understand the specific rules and mechanisms of minimal residual disease, including clonal evolution at the metastatic site, epigenetic programs, interaction with organ defense and immune systems, mechanisms of dormancy and re-awakening, and last but not least, mechanisms of therapy resistance in specific niches.

A website specific to building the immune system, written by a natural medicine cancer expert: Immune Therapy Solutions Website

While «biological» therapies are designed to be more specific to cancer cells by working with your body's immune system, they are not without risks.

In the last few years, we have been using frequency - specific low level laser therapy (see FSLLL articles) to help reduce the over - exuberant / inappropriate immune response that causes the symptoms of all types of allergies.

Re-directed Autologous T cell Therapy for drug resistant or refractory CD20 + B cell lymphoma Overview: In this approach, immune cells (known as T cells) are taken from the peripheral blood, genetically modified in the laboratory to express a receptor that recognizes B cells, and then expanded to produce large numbers of tumor specific T cells outside -LSB-...]

Worked in a Phase I / II clinical trials research laboratory that focuses on the development of antigen - specific cytotoxic T - lymphocytes for adoptive cellular immune therapies in children and adults