Sentences with phrase «to stimulate an immune response»

These circulating pathogens affect the fetus by stimulating an immune response that may affect the development of the fetal brain.

It is also a whole - tumor vaccine, meant to stimulate an immune response against not just one tumor - associated target but hundreds or thousands.

It is a preparation designed to provide protection against a specific infectious disease through stimulating an immune response that will protect the cat if it is subsequently exposed to the infection.

Food allergies stimulate an immune response that results in inflammation, which can result in vomiting and nausea.

Some pets do experience minor side effects after vaccination, as vaccines work by stimulating an immune response.

The tattooing process works by injecting ink into the skin, which stimulates an immune response in which cells called «macrophages» move into the area and «eat up» the ink.

Lastly, it would also be conceivable to utilize protein - DNA hybrid structures for example to better stimulate the immune response of cells, which can depend on the precise geometrical arrangement of multiple antigens.

«This research represents a big step forward in understanding why some tumors are more aggressive than others and being able to predict rationally which neoantigens will be the most effective at stimulating an immune response,» said Dr. Balachandran, a member of the David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research at MSK, and corresponding author of the companion study in Nature.

A study published 2 years ago in Science suggested the strategy might work: It showed that a neoantigen vaccine stimulated immune responses in three advanced melanoma patients who had already received a cancer drug.

Some scientists speculate that the placement of an IUD stimulates an immune response in the cervix, giving the body an opportunity to fight an existing HPV infection that could one day lead to cervical cancer.

One reason vaccines using weakened flu virus are not used in the elderly is that they have been exposed to many strains of flu virus over the years and have more antibodies in the nasal tract, which can inhibit the weakened flu virus from infecting and stimulating the immune response necessary to protect against the virus.

«This study provides specific detail on the parts of oats stimulating immune responses, and highlights the relevance of grains other than wheat in celiac disease,» Dr Tye - Din said.

In a new paper, Brown University researchers show one: proliferation helps change the NK cells» function from stimulating the immune response to calming it down, lest it get out of hand.

These two synergistic therapies stimulate an immune response, ultimately allowing solid tumors to act as their own cancer - fighting vaccine.

The moist environment that forms under the foreskin also enhances the growth of microbes on the penis's tip, Fauci adds, further stimulating immune responses near the skin's surface.

Experts from the Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences are expanding evidence that shows targeted radiation stimulates an immune response against cancer.

Immunotherapies may also stimulate immune responses controlled by these checkpoints.

Probiotics are most capable of stimulating an immune response when they are plentiful enough to form a healthy gut flora.

Amphigen ®, the adjuvant in FluSure Pandemic, helps stimulate immune responses, using the animal's natural defense system to help fight disease.

While this virus was hypothesized to kill osteosarcoma cells through its replication, we have recently recognized the possibility that the virus stimulates an immune response to tumor, in addition to itself.

Using a comprehensive profiling technique, the team was able to uncover a milieu of molecules known as specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs) in human breast milk and found that each of these molecules helped resolve inflammation and stimulate immune response in preclinical models.

Adjuvants cause the vaccine to be more effective at stimulating an immune response, which is the way that vaccines provide protection from disease.

Researchers at the University of Maryland and Duke University have designed a novel protein - sugar vaccine candidate that, in an animal model, stimulated an immune response against sugars that form a protective shield around HIV.

There are two steps to making a neoantigen vaccine: first, identify mutated proteins unique to most of a patient's cancer cells and second, identify portions of those proteins that could most effectively stimulate an immune response.

Similar to vaccines for people, our pets are protected by stimulating an immune response to common contagious diseases.

According to tests performed on mice and rabbits, the new vaccine stimulated an immune response to 72 of the more than 90 known strains of S. pneumoniae.

This vitamin also helps maintain cell membrane integrity and stimulate the immune response.

Two out of the 15 quinoa cultivars («Ayacuchana» and «Pansakalla») stimulated an immune response that was as potent as that observed for wheat gluten.

The study, led by researchers from The Ohio State University, details how the enzyme influences proteins that stimulate the immune response.

IL - 6 is a protein the body produces to stimulate immune response and healing.

Many modern vaccines use only those parts of the pathogen that stimulate the immune response, so there is no chance of infection.

In a small trial, an injected candidate vaccine was safe and stimulated an immune response.

Antigens are foreign objects like bacteria and viruses that stimulate an immune response in the body.

«The study demonstrates that controlled heating of one tumor can stimulate an immune response that attacks another tumor that has not had the heat treatment,» said Steve Fiering, PhD, Norris Cotton Cancer Center researcher and professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and of Genetics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

While checkpoint blockade drugs currently focus on blocking two checkpoint mechanisms, others have been identified by research, as well as molecules that stimulate immune response.

«Both the effect on the stimulated immune responses and the consequential suppression of tumor growth are results that would suggest further development and clinical testing.»

These include three new types of «pathogenicity islands,» stretches of DNA with multiple genes that promote infection or stimulate immune responses in people.

Coley spent the rest of his career, until he died in 1936, perfecting recipes for a brew of infectious agents and their toxins that could stimulate an immune response — without killing the patient.

(Antigens are any foreign substance that can stimulate an immune response, typically spurring antibody production.)

To test the potential protection offered by H. diminuta, the team infected both groups of rodents with a one - two punch: a mild case of Escherichia coli shortly after birth to stimulate an immune response, and an injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) after they had been «wormed» as adults.

Now, for the first time in the world, an international research team including Georg Stary from the University Clinic of Dermatology at MedUni Vienna has discovered how to stimulate the immune response to Chlamydiae both efficiently and preventively.

A second drug, a monoclonal antibody that recognizes a protein called mucin 1 that prevents the death of cancer cells and is overabundant in pancreatic ductal carcinoma, is given to patients to stimulate an immune response.

Sm14 holds promise to stimulate an immune response in humans, serving as a potential preventative vaccine for schistosomiasis.

In April, 2013, Lana E. Kandalaft, Ph.D., and team at the University of Pennsylvania presented the results from a study of a novel immunotherapy and combination therapy treatment for ovarian cancer using patients» own tumors to stimulate an immune response.

subunit vaccine - a vaccine that uses one or more parts of a disease - causing organism, rather than the whole, to stimulate an immune response.

The HVTN is an international collaboration that conducts all phases of clinical trials, from evaluating experimental vaccines for safety and the ability to stimulate immune responses, to testing vaccine efficacy.

Until now, however, achieving a similar feat in human cells has eluded scientists — partly because activating iNKT cells released different types of cytokines: some stimulated an immune response, while others inhibited it.

Cancer vaccines are designed to stimulate an immune response against tumor - specific or tumor - associated antigens, encouraging the immune system to attack cancer cells bearing these antigens.