Sentences with phrase «weak immune response»

It is also possible that the vaccine may not be properly stored or administered, or that the animal may have an unusually weak immune response.

Couples with marital conflicts have greater difficulty with wound healing and an overall weaker immune response.

The researchers found that the older subjects exhibited weaker immune responses, as there was less T cell activation, and less reddening and swelling of the skin.

«There is some evidence that men make weaker immune responses to some viruses than women, but how this happens and whether it is seen across all viruses is still unclear to me,» notes John Upham, professor of respiratory medicine at Queensland University in Australia.

Mice whose immune system was changed so that their lymph node dendritic cells were unable to activate T cells showed a much weaker immune response to the migratory dendritic cell transfers.

However, conventional intramuscular or subcutaneous immunizations often only induce weak immune responses in the gut where the infection occurs, and therefore protect only weakly against enteropathogens on the mucosal surface.

Sue warns that, if these hormones do have a profound effect on the immune system, then «men may not be exaggerating symptoms, but have weaker immune responses to viral respiratory viruses, leading to greater morbidity and mortality than seen in women.»

Those who had the strongest inflammation responses to the saline solution had the weakest immune responses to the VZV, suggesting that the excessive inflammation was inhibiting VZV - specific immunity.

Whereas the results don't show whether these changes produce an overall stronger or weaker immune response, they do indicate «cytomegalovirus has a really profound effect,» Davis says.

The pH of the vaccine used in the trials was found to be lower than usual, and subsequent studies have shown that the lower - pH formulation provokes a weaker immune response.

H7N9 could be a tough adversary: New Scientist has learned that it provokes a weaker immune response than most flu, making vaccines hard to produce.

The exercise of flying also releases DNA, so bats may have evolved a weak immune response to avoid attacking their own tissue.

New flu tests have been given emergency approval, as it emerges that H7N9 provokes a weaker immune response than other flu, making vaccines hard to produce

Mice that lack adequate retinoic acid while in utero grow up to have weaker immune responses and undersized lymph nodes in adulthood, the scientists find.

Mice from Taconic Biosciences (TAC) showed only a weak immune response.

The study authors say that is because these vaccines have generally been made with tumor antigens that are too similar to antigens on normal cells: as a result, the body generates a weaker immune response to avoid harming normal cells, a process called immune tolerance.

In addition, the mice had only a weak immune response to the treatment, which quickly returned to baseline.

A weak immune response allows the virus to reach the epithelial cells, the cells that line every interface the body has with the outside world.

A weak immune response allows the virus to reach the «epithelial cells,» the cells which line every interface the body has with the outside world.