Sentences with phrase «trigger immune cell activity»

But researchers had already begun to suspect an additional player: HLA histocompatibility genes, whose protein products are needed to trigger immune cell activity.

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This causes the body's white blood cells to release type 1 interferon - alpha, a small cytokine protein that acts as a systemic alarm, triggering a cascade of additional immune activity as it binds with receptors in different tissues.

There, the immune cells interact with liver cells and trigger an inflammatory response that damages the liver tissue and also destabilizes the metabolic activity of the liver cells.

The idea: trigger immune activity within the brain itself to kill remaining tumor cells — the ones neurosurgeons can't take out, which make this type of tumor so dangerous.

One study found that exposure to chronic stress actually changes the activity of the genes of immune cells — making them more likely to attack the body's own tissue and trigger an autoimmune response.

Chemicals in these particular types of leafy green vegetables trigger a powerful immune boosting activity in cell surface proteins (AhR proteins) found on the surface of white blood cells, otherwise known as lymphocytes.

Astragalus increases the number of stem cells in lymph tissue and helps trigger immune cells to a state of heightened activity.