Sentences with phrase «studies immunological»

Dr. Ahmed studies immunological memory — the ability of the immune system to «remember» a particular antigen and respond accordingly.

Gilead and Verily will work together for three years to study the immunological nature of rheumatoid arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome and diseases related to lupus, the companies said after trading closed Monday.

The mouse model should also be useful for studying the immunological reactions and viral clearance in hepatitis B virus infection, they note in the Journal of Virology.

She is currently a Research Fellow who is studying the immunological and virological characterization of HIV -1-infected patients who are taking antiretroviral therapy and various viral reactivation agents in several ongoing clinical trials.

I also study the immunological and neurological mechanisms involved in nutrition, herbal medicine, acupuncture, and mind - body therapies, with specific interest in the gut - brain axis in Parkinson's disease.

Not exact matches

Previous studies of the staying power of mother's milk had found that many of its benefits are not affected by refrigeration, and that bacteriological, nutritional and immunological advantages for infants continue after the milk is expressed and stored.

Though no conclusive studies have been done to identify the immunological components of breast milk for children past 2 years of age, there's no reason to suppose they stop cold turkey once baby reaches a certain age.

There is good microbiological and immunological evidence for the different mechanisms by which breast feeding confers protection against diarrhoea, 5 but few epidemiological studies have measured their relative importance.

According to a new study, these babies face a greater risk of developing immunological disorders compared to children born naturally.

Through continued study, breastmilk has been shown repeatedly to have a wide array of effectiveness against disease - causing agents and lead to an overall positive immunological effect on the health and well being of the infant and mother.

What is known through studies is that babies that are continued to be breastfed continue to receive immunological benefits from the immunoglobulins, lysozyme, lactoferrin, complement, lactoperoxidase, macrophages, lymphocytes, interferon, «antistaphylococcal factor,» and «bifidus factor» contained in breastmilk.

Researchers studied HIV positive individuals, ages 30 to 50 years, who did not have osteoporosis, had no history of immunological disease other than HIV, had serum vitamin D and calcium levels within the normal range, and normal CBC and blood chemistry profiles.

«There are many studies in humans, and at least one in chimpanzees, showing that from an immunological perspective, juveniles and children are really important for maintaining diseases in populations through play and things like that,» she said.

The authors are continuing their study of urban impacts on finches — emphasizing the behavioral and immunological impacts of humans and urban parasites on the birds.

«Even with the new immunological studies, we can't tell what's special about the whole - cell vaccine that makes it better,» says Kathryn Edwards, the director of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Vaccine Research Center.

Because the researchers found that CTLA4Ig was effective in suppressing hepatitis in this study, they suggest that CTLA4Ig should be among the therapeutic options investigated further as a potential therapy for patients with severe acute hepatitis B. To this end, this animal model is useful for virological and immunological analysis of HBV infection.

Arguing that «this high degree of complexity both in terms of immunological outcomes and underlying mechanisms, necessitates that HDAC inhibitors be studied in a context that is matched to their intended utility,» Brad Jones, from the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Boston, USA, and colleagues set out to test whether the three drugs affected the ability of CTL to eliminate HIV - infected target cells.

Among areas the panel says should be studied further are possible cancer, reproductive, neurological, and immunological effects of endocrine disruptors.

In the new study, scientists built upon previous discoveries that a safe, non-reproducing vaccine strain of T. gondii could cure mice of several types of solid tumors, and identified which parasite proteins and which immunological pathways are required to break immune tolerance.

We therefore asked ourselves whether an immunological memory in these long - lived microglia could be communicating this risk,» explains Dr. Jonas Neher, head of the current study and a scientist at the DZNE and the HIH.

«Because of the direct link between nicotine itself and inflammation, this study has important implications including that alternative forms of nicotine inhalation, such as vaping that lacks other chemicals from cigarette smoke, may nonetheless still have detrimental immunological effects.»

«The study clearly shows that it is possible to achieve an immunological antibody memory with mucosal vaccination and that the memory cells that are created in connection with this type of vaccination are unique and can not be achieved through traditional vaccination methods.

The European research collaboration behind this study focuses on deep immunological analysis of the immunogenicity and reactogenicity of the Ebola vaccine in healthy volunteers.

The study gathered information on environmental, genetic, and immunological factors collected from blood samples and questionnaires between 1996 and 2014.

«The study results suggest that immunological changes during pregnancy may affect the response to the vaccination,» stated Emily Patel, M.D. with Duke University.

«There is an immunological case of mistaken identity,» explains study author Lawrence Steinman of Stanford's Beckman Center for Molecular Medicine.

The study is the first to provide immunological evidence on the role of gestational infection in autism, reporting an association between maternal anti-herpes simplex virus - 2 (HSV - 2) antibodies and risk for ASD in offspring.

The immunological benefits from the wild mice's gut bacteria may, in part, explain a persistent problem in disease research: Why disease experiments in lab mice, such as vaccine studies, turn out very differently in humans or other animals.

Arturo Casadevall, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and director of the Center for Immunological Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who has been studying Cryptococcus for over 20 years, has compared the phenomenon with a card game where soil microbes are playing for survival, but by chance, a few hands confer «accidental virulence» on other hosts.

Molecular, subcellular and cellular studies in whole animals or humans; and novel molecular, immunological or biophysical studies of hormone action are also featured.

Furthermore, this study also encourages the application of iPSC - MSCs as an exciting new therapeutic option for a range of immunological disorders and suggests that further study of the secreted factors may allow the construction of efficient cell - free therapies in the near future.

These studies led to the discovery of the Immunological - Synapse.

«Cytokines provide the intercellular communication links between the immune system and other tissues and organs... Thus, the study of cytokines has helped to propel immunology from the limited areas of immunological specificity to larger concerns of the cell biology, biochemical, molecular, and clinical aspects of host defense.»

The robust immunomodulatory capabilities of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have propelled them into animal studies and preliminary clinical trials as a treatment for a series of immunological diseases.

This study looks at variation in one immunological message, and finds that people with the uncommon version of the gene will make more antibodies after being vaccinated.

Our microscopy studies with quantitative co-localization analysis revealed the presence of intraneuronal Aβ in transgenic rats, with an immunological signal that was clearly distinguished from that of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and its C - terminal fragments (CTFs).

«The level of Lactobacilllus phage phiadh correlated with the prevalence of immunological disorders... which has been shown in animal models to alter the microbiome,» the Johns Hopkins study said.

[5] The primary outcome of the study was safety and tolerability, with immunological response to the vaccine as a secondary outcome.

The successful candidate will study how defined immune evasion functions encoded by CMV impact on immunological control of virus, and the progression of disease.

Currently, at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT & Harvard, she will be focus on the study of different pharmaceutical and immunological strategies to reduce HIV - 1 persistence.

Career Goal: My future career goal is to obtain a PhD in Immunology, a field of study in science which fascinates me, and, ultimately, to pursue a career in scientific research of immunological diseases.

Our group focuses on developing pharmaceutical and immunological strategies to reduce HIV - 1 persistence, and on evaluating such interventions in clinical studies.

In this way, in - depth immunological monitoring, genetic and proteomic analyses, and biomarker discovery from patient samples guides further laboratory investigation, where mechanistic studies can be designed and animal modeling performed.

Current studies focus mainly on two receptor systems - the mast cell surface receptor, FcεRI, and the receptor for epidermal growth factor that operate in immunological and cell proliferation responses.

Therefore the group: i) characterizes the specificity of these antibody responses to identify relevant targets for a vaccine; ii) developes new approaches to test antibody responses; and iii) adoptes the immunological analysis in preclinical (in rabbits and macaques) and clinical vaccines studies to identify predictive signatures for the development and prioritization of new HIV - 1 vaccine candidates.

Examples include a series of studies to document persistent microchimerism of donor cells in transfusion recipients, with particular focus on mechanisms and clinical relevance of donor stem cell microchimerism in transfused trauma patients, and the immunological mechanisms and prevention of transfusion - related acute lung injury (TRALI) and alloimmunization.

Hu and his lab take biochemical, cell biological, and immunological approaches to study these questions in mouse tumor models and human cancer cells.

Our study aims to gain insight in its pathogenesis, by evaluating multimodal MRI studies in HIV - positive children versus healthy controls, and correlating alterations with neurocognitive, immunological and pharmacological states.

Published studies have suggested that T1D results from environmental triggers acting on genetically susceptible individuals and that microbial infection and their immunological consequences are suspected to take part in the pathogenesis.

In addition, Dr. Marrack is studying how alum improves immunological memory and whether Bcl - 2 proteins, which affect a cell's lifecycle, are involved.