Sentences with phrase «types of viruses called»

Herpes infections are caused by two types of viruses called Herpes Simplex Virus.

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Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown, in mice, that the virus infects a rare type of intestinal cell called a tuft cell, so named because each cell sports a cluster of hairlike extensions on its surface.

For type 1 diabetes, suspicion has long fallen on a group of viruses called Coxsackie B enteroviruses (CBV), partly because outbreaks have sometimes been followed by a surge in diabetes cases.

The virus appears to invade the brain by infecting a type of glial cell called olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs), which nourish smell - sensing neurons and guide them from the olfactory bulb to their targets in the nervous system.

Findings from a study in animals appear to demonstrate that temporarily blocking a type of protein, called type I interferon, can restore immune function and speed up viral suppression during treatment with anti-viral drugs for people with chronic infection of the virus that causes AIDS.

During the initial stages of HIV infection, often within hours, the virus infects a type of white blood cell called CD4 T cells.

Now, a new type of vaccine developed within an EU - funded project, called EuroNeut - 41, is based on one of the envelope proteins of the HIV virus, called the gp41 protein.

Significantly, J&J's latest vaccine uses so - called mosaic technology to combine immune - stimulating proteins from different HIV strains, representing different types of virus from around the world, which should produce a «global» vaccine.

A molecular biologist at the Broad Institute and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Zhang and colleagues have screened hundreds of candidate enzymes, among them, a protein called CPF1 that's used by many different types of bacteria to fight off viruses.

WRAIR is moving forward with the purified inactivated virus (PIV) vaccine, called ZPIV, because it builds on «a type of vaccine that has been licensed before,» said Col. Stephen Thomas, an infectious disease Army physician and a vaccinologist specializing in flaviviruses, and the WRAIR Zika program lead.

Johannes Scheid, a student in Nussenzweig's lab, isolated it several years ago from an HIV - infected patient whose immune system had an exceptional ability to neutralize HIV in the blood by preventing the virus from infecting and destroying a specific type of immune cells, called CD4 cells, in patients.

Recently, considerable progress has been made in studies evaluating the possible role of one virus group, called enteroviruses, which have been connected with human type 1 diabetes in a variety of reports.

All types of biodiversity (viruses, bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes) were included within the call.

Normally, two types of immune cells, called T cells and B cells, protect the body from invading viruses, bacteria and fungi.

Cold sores (which are also called fever blisters) are caused by type 1 of the herpes simplex virus.

Diagnosis Two types of blood tests are commonly used to diagnose FeLV, both of which detect a protein component of the virus called FeLV P27.

(The Long Dark and Unturned, you will have to wait till you go gold and launch for everyone) * No Mods or DLC (This leaves out stuff like the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Zombie mode and Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare DLC) * No remastered or remake editions (Sorry The Last of Us Remastered) * Zombies must be at the core and not bundled in with a lot of other mobs (Crypt of the Necrodancer) * Slight modifications to the zombies are allowed as long as they were originally humans who have turned into monsters; even Resident Evil has introduced many different types of viruses and super zombies over the years.

The PvP clashes you'll get embroiled in includes 1v1 battles, co-op King of the Hill fights and an interesting game type called Zombie Virus.

Chlamydia is caused by a type of bacteria, while HIV is a virus that causes a fatal disease called AIDS.