Lack of sleep decreases the activity of T - cells (a crucial type of immune cell) and
weakens our immune response to vaccines.
Not exact matches
A group of researchers from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found that DNA
vaccines can have the perverse effect of «tolerizing» the
immune system, perhaps
weakening any future
response to the real pathogen.
One reason
vaccines using
weakened flu virus are not used in the elderly is that they have been exposed
to many strains of flu virus over the years and have more antibodies in the nasal tract, which can inhibit the
weakened flu virus from infecting and stimulating the
immune response necessary
to protect against the virus.
All studies showed the addition of the B strain improved the antibody
response to that strain and didn't
weaken the body's
immune response to other flu strains in the
vaccine.
Historically,
vaccines against viral diseases have used live - attenuated (
weakened) viruses or inactivated whole viruses
to induce protective
immune responses.
The «primer» pandemic influenza
vaccine — made from live but
weakened virus — introduces the
immune system
to H7N9 influenza virus, and subsequent vaccination with the «booster» inactivated virus
vaccine recalls a more robust
immune response.