Sentences with phrase «types of immune cells within»

Using animal models of precancerous polyps in the bowel, Chung and his team determined that certain types of immune cells within a chronically inflamed intestine can become rewired, causing them — paradoxically — to contribute to disease development rather than protect against it.

Not exact matches

It is the stuff of dreams for flu scientists, but it could be within reach if a new type of vaccine that elicits an immune response from white blood cells is combined with traditional vaccines.

Current thinking regarding type III hypersensitivity is that immune cells within tissues sense the presence of these immune complexes (ICs) through specific receptor molecules and release inflammatory factors called cytokines that activate the endothelial cells lining adjacent blood vessels to promote the recruitment of neutrophils.

Once lymphocytes find such invaders within the lymph node, they destroy them in collaboration with other types of immune cells.

And this in spite of the fact that all the various types of blood cells within a lymph node, including the immune cells, are constantly replaced, which means the lymph nodes» location memory must be encoded somewhere in its stroma.

The bacteria hide within human cells called macrophages, escaping the body's own immune defenses and being shielded from many types of antibiotics.

Type, density, and location of immune cells within human colorectal tumors predict clinical outcome.

But novel genomic tools are beginning to reveal new, rare cell types as well as unexpected variability and plasticity within groups upending the traditional view of immune cells assigned to the same category as unvarying entities that behave in a constant manner.

For decades, scientists have been seeking a new type of vaccine that activates another player in the immune system called a T cell to fight off infections within different organs.

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.