Sentences with phrase «system proteins»

In pregnant mice infected with Zika virus, those fetuses with a docking station, or receptor, for immune system proteins called type I interferons either died or grew more poorly compared with fetuses lacking the receptor.

The speaker woefully described his difficulties determining the structure of an immune system protein called calcineurin: Do what he might, one very large region of the protein simply refused to come into focus.

And with his boss, Monell director Gary Beauchamp, he isdeveloping the idea of the odor print: the notion, first proposed bythe late biologist Lewis Thomas more than 25 years ago, that body odorbears a signature of immune - system proteins as unique as a face or afingerprint.

«Blocking immune system protein in mice prevents fetal brain injury, but not preterm birth.»

In the hunt for genetic and environmental factors responsible for allergies, a prime suspect has been interleukin - 4 (IL - 4); this immune system protein tells white blood cells to make IgE antibodies, which recognize foreign substances and set off an immune attack.

To explore these questions Akiko Iwasaki, professor of immunobiology and investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and her co-authors observed replication of the Zika virus in the vaginal tissue of control, wild - type mice (genetically unmodified mice) and mice lacking genes that regulate immune system proteins known as type I interferons.

They repeated part of an old experiment — first published in 1961 — that demonstrated that immune system proteins from a naturally immune person could cure a subject who had caught malaria for the first time.

«A lot of immune system proteins probably have different functions in the brain,» O'Donovan says.

We used bioinformatics tools, including orthology detection and ab initio predictions of secretion system proteins, as well as published experimental Burkholderia data to initially select a small number of proteins as putative virulence factors.

When human immune system proteins detect this virus - specific RNA, they sound an alarm to signal the rest of the immune system to respond.

For the first time, scientists have witnessed a mouse immune system protein frisking a snippet of an invading...

This theory is backed up by clinical symptoms of asthma that include high levels of an immune system protein called IgE, which is also elevated in allergies.

Previous research has suggested that antibodies — immune system proteins that can attack viruses — in a mother might be less effective against certain genetic variants of HIV - 1 in her body, thereby allowing for transmission of resistant viruses to her infant at delivery.

The cause of the disorder remains a mystery, but evidence suggests that at least some people inherit it: Sufferers often have a specific DNA sequence in a gene that codes for an immune system protein.

Immunodeficiencies can arise due to gene mutations in immune system proteins.

Both tasocitinib and Incyte's drug, INCB028050, target Janus kinases, which mediate signaling by immune - system proteins called cytokines.

Several of the viruses also release the gene for granulocyte - macrophage colony - stimulating factor (GM - CSF) an immune system protein.

They nicknamed it «Delta 20,» an immune system protein that suppresses the most damaging HIV strains, X4, by preventing the virus from infecting cells.

Researchers from Princeton University and the University of California - San Diego (UCSD) recently found that an immune - system protein called MHCI, or major histocompatibility complex class I, moonlights in the nervous system to help regulate the number of synapses, which transmit chemical and electrical signals between neurons.

To better understand this process, the researchers investigated whether VZV influences the function of chemokines, small immune system proteins that attract white blood cells to sites of infection and guide their movement within the body.

The disease is caused by a faulty copy of IL2RG, a gene that codes for an immune system protein called interleukin 2.

Rather, probiotics may increase intestinal cells» production of mucus or of immune - system proteins called immunoglobulins, he says.

He was among the first scientists to investigate interferon, an important immune system protein.

In the absence of functional annotation, genes encoding immune system proteins can thus be difficult to identify, as homology - based approaches generally can not detect lineage - specific genes.

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered how an immune system protein, called AIM2 (Absent in Melanoma 2), plays a role in determining the aggressiveness of colon cancer.

Zinc assists in regulating an immune system protein called NF - kB (Nuclear FActor - kappa Beta) by reducing inflammation and serving as an antioxidant to prevent oxidative stress.