Sentences with phrase «studies cytomegalovirus»
«They have to get past physical and innate barriers — it is tough to succeed,» says Peter Barry, a biologist who studies cytomegalovirus at the University of California, Davis.
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After a short postdoc at Cambridge sequencing cytomegalovirus, he landed a second postdoc in a lab in New York studying oncogenes.
When Mikovits used the microarray to study CFS patients, she «saw all these infections — lots of chronic, active infections — cytomegalovirus, Epstein - Barr virus, human herpes six,» she says.
And in a study of monkeys, researchers discovered that a cytomegalovirus - based vaccine protected 50 percent of animals from infection by simian immunodeficiency virus.
Based on the new study, it is hard to say if being infected with cytomegalovirus is good or bad for the immune system.
In previous studies, Ogunjimi and colleagues found that the impact of aging is exacerbated by Cytomegalovirus infection, another virus in the herpes family.
The study may explain, among other things, how the mother's infection with the cytomegalovirus (CMV) during pregnancy, which affects her own and her fetus's immune system, increases the risk that her offspring will develop autism or schizophrenia, sometimes years later.
Immune system cells known as natural killer (NK) cells play an important protective role against hearing loss in mice infected with cytomegalovirus (CMV), according to a new study published in PLOS Pathogens.
The study, published in Pediatrics, is the first to assess how implementation of a state - wide screening can pick up hearing loss in infants due to congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV).
Volunteers from five countries differed in genetics, body composition, compliance to the study, response to diet, blood measurements, cytomegalovirus positivity and inflammatory parameters.
Infants were excluded from the MLS if they had a chromosomal abnormality or TORCH (toxoplasmosis, other agents, rubella, cytomegalovirus, herpes) infection confirmed before the 1 - month assessment or if the mother planned to move outside of the study catchment area.