Immune Response

  • Scientists Show How Shifts in Temperature Prime Immune Response
    Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute have found a temperature-sensing protein within immune cells that, when tripped, allows calcium to pour in and activate an immune response. This process can occur as temperature rises, such as during a fever, or when it ...More
    May 6, 2011
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  • Scientists Discover How White Blood Cells Detect Infectious Invaders
    Scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have discovered how a molecular receptor on the surface of white blood cells identifies when invading fungi have established direct contact with the cell surface and pose an infectious threat. The receptor called Dectin-1, studied ...More
    April 29, 2011
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  • Simple Fungus Reveals Clue to Immune System Protection
    A discovery by Johns Hopkins scientists about how a single-celled fungus survives in low-oxygen settings may someday help humans whose immune systems are compromised by organ transplants or AIDS. A report on the discovery in a yeast called Schizosaccharomyces pombe appears ...More
    April 21, 2011
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  • Stress Wrecks Intestinal Bacteria, Could Keep Immune System on Idle
    Stress not only sends the human immune system into overdrive – it can also wreak havoc on the trillions of bacteria that work and thrive inside our digestive system. New research suggests that this may be important because those bacteria play a significant role in ...More
    April 11, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Stress Affects the Balance of Bacteria in the Gut and Immune Response
    Stress can change the balance of bacteria that naturally live in the gut, according to research published this month in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. "These bacteria affect immune function, and may help explain why stress dysregulates the immune response," says ...More
    March 21, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Study Helps Explain How Pathogenic E. coli Bacterium Causes Illness
    Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have shown how the O157:H7 strain of Escherichia coli causes infection and thrives by manipulating the host immune response. The bacterium secretes a ...More
    March 14, 2011
    Posted in News
  • The Secrets of Plague are Revealed
    In work that is pushing the "diffraction barrier" associated with microscopic imaging of living cells, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque demonstrated the power of a new super-resolution microscopy technique called Stochastic Optical Reconstruction ...More
    March 9, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Study Focuses on Immunity, Infection and Spinal Cord-Injured Patients
    Mobility is a challenge for spinal cord-injured patients, as is infection. Adam Thrasher, assistant professor of health and human performance (HHP), says infection is the leading cause of death for people living with spinal cord injuries for two years or more. He and HHP ...More
    March 4, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Research Opens Doors to Vaccines That Can Circumvent Maternal Antibodies
    New research that reveals how maternal antibodies block an immune response to the measles virus is a first step toward improving current childhood vaccination practices, scientists say. Maternal antibodies are passed to fetuses during pregnancy and to newborns in their ...More
    March 1, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Immune Cells Protect Body from Invaders
    So-called barrier sites -- the skin, gut, lung – limit the inner body’s exposure to allergens, pollutants, viruses, bacteria and parasites. Understanding how the immune system works in these external surfaces has implications for understanding such inflammatory diseases as ...More
    February 7, 2011
    Posted in News
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