Sentences with phrase «suppress autoimmune responses»

Although it has been suggested that resveratrol has anti-inflammatory properties, in this study resveratrol did not suppress autoimmune responses as measured by levels of MOG35 -55-specific lymphoproliferative responses and pro-inflammatory cytokine production.

The scientists zeroed in on a type of immune cell called regulatory T - cells, which were known to suppress autoimmune responses.

Immunologists have found two major immune responses that stimulate or suppress the autoimmune response.

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SynNotch engineered T cells are also versatile in that they can either be used drive a potent immune response to cancer or suppress an immune response in an autoimmune setting,» he said.

Paradoxically, at high dosage levels IVIG can suppress, rather than enhance the immune response and is used to treat several inflammatory and autoimmune conditions.

If these enzymes are inhibited, the painful immune response that occurs in this autoimmune disease is suppressed.

In recent years, researchers have successfully countered autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis by suppressing the immune response with antibodies engineered to stop the action of TNF - a.

Another potential mechanism through which iodine exacerbates or induces Hashimoto's is by up - regulating Th17 cells, the immune cell subset responsible for tissue destruction in autoimmune disease, and by suppressing development of regulatory T cells, the population that invokes oral tolerance to arrest autoimmune responses (31).