Sentences with phrase «weaker immune responses to some viruses»
«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.
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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.»
When researchers infected these ERV - depleted cells with the vaccinia virus (which may be related to smallpox), they had a much weaker innate immune response than unedited normal cells, the team reports online today in Science.
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.