Sentences with phrase «viral immunologist»

The finding is the «final piece of evidence that during an infection, a virus can bring about autoimmune disease [by molecular mimicry],» says viral immunologist Michael Oldstone of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who first proposed the hypothesis in 1982.

But viral immunologist Michael Farzan of the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, and 33 co-workers have recently taken a different strategy, building a novel molecule based on our knowledge of how HIV infects cells.

«This study provides support for this idea that antibodies under certain conditions can be bad and actually cause severe disease when people are infected with dengue,» says viral immunologist Sujan Shresta of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in California.

Now they have some good news about the herpes virus family: Ironically named viral immunologist Herbert Virgin from Washington University School of Medicine has come up with some pretty convincing evidence that infection with two other members of the herpes virus family — the Epstein - Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis, and the relatively harmless cytomegalovirus — can actually protect a person from a range of bacterial infections.

Viral immunologist Jacco Boon of Washington University in St. Louis agrees.

But «there's been this controversy for five decades about, does this antibody - dependent enhancement really happen in dengue» in humans, says coauthor Eva Harris, a viral immunologist at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health.

There's no guarantee the virus will spread similarly from person to person, says Ana Fernandez - Sesma, a viral immunologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

Together, the findings indicate that the virus by itself can wreak havoc, says Michael Diamond, a viral immunologist at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri who led the Cell study.

But molecular mimicry is unlikely to be the whole story, says Abner Notkins, a viral immunologist at the National Institute of Dental Research in Bethesda, Maryland.

«This was a tour - de-force study,» says John Teijaro, a viral immunologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., who coauthored a perspective that accompanied the article.

«Viruses have been suspected as potential triggers of autoimmune or food allergy — related diseases for decades,» says Herbert Virgin, a viral immunologist at

«This is what we see in mice,» said Dr. Michael Diamond, a viral immunologist at Washington University School of Medicine and senior author of the paper.

But Ronald Glaser, a viral immunologist at Ohio State University Medical Center and his research partner (and wife), psychologist Janice Kiecolt - Glaser, think that these viruses are not fully dormant.

But it has an unlikely connection with glioblastoma, said Dr. Michael Diamond, a viral immunologist at Washington University in St. Louis.