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Immune Response

Scientists Find New Way to Stimulate the Immune System to Fight Infection

These new data are an essential step toward understanding the operation of these key cells in the immune system, and they could provide a new therapeutic approach to fighting infection. They also suggest that the operation of NK cells must be precisely regulated to ...More
January 20, 2012
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ISU, Professor Receive Patent for Adjuvant That Boosts Immune System

Swapan Ghosh, Indiana State University professor of biology. While conducting research on cancer, Swapan Ghosh and a team of graduate and doctoral students discovered a phytol-derived adjuvant. That adjuvant formula just became U.S. Patent No. 8,088,395. “I’m so excited,” ...More
January 12, 2012
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Regular, Moderate Exercise May Keep Colds Away

Different levels of exercise can actually significantly increase or decrease your chances of catching a respiratory infection, says professor Mike Gleeson from Loughborough University. While regular moderate exercise can reduce the risk of catching cold-like infections, ...More
January 5, 2012
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Researchers Discover the Existence of Neutrophils in the Spleen Without Presence of Infection

For the first time, it has been discovered that neutrophils exist in the spleen without there being an infection. This important finding made by the research group on the Biology of B Cells of IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) in collaboration with researchers from ...More
December 27, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
'Pep Talk' Can Revive Immune Cells Exhausted by Chronic Viral Infection

Chronic infections by viruses such as HIV or hepatitis C eventually take hold because they wear the immune system out, a phenomenon immunologists describe as exhaustion. Yet exhausted immune cells can be revived after the introduction of fresh cells that act like coaches ...More
December 13, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Intestine is Crucial to the Function of Immune Cells, Research Shows

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found an explanation for how the intestinal tract influences a key component of the immune system to prevent infection, offering a potential clue to the cause of autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and multiple ...More
December 12, 2011
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Nanosized Metallic Particles on Implants Fools Immune System, Reduces Rejection Risk

Coating the surface of an implant such as a new hip or pacemaker with nanosized metallic particles reduces the risk of rejection, and researchers at the University of Gothenburg can now explain why: they fool the innate immune system. The results are presented in the ...More
November 29, 2011
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Immune System Has Protective Memory Cells, Researchers Discover

The immune system possesses a type of cell that can be activated by tissues within the body to remind the immune system not to attack our own molecules, cells and organs, UCSF researchers have discovered. The discovery is likely to lead to new strategies for fighting a ...More
November 28, 2011
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Bacteria Responsible for Common Infections May Protect Themselves by Stealing Immune Molecules

Bacteria responsible for middle ear infections, pink eye and sinusitis protect themselves from further immune attack by transporting molecules meant to destroy them away from their inner membrane target, according to a study from Nationwide Children's Hospital. The study, ...More
November 17, 2011
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External Capsule Protects Gum Disease-Causing Bacteria From Immune Response

The capsule of Porphyromonas gingivalis, the bacterium that causes gum disease, provides stealth, boosting the bacterium's virulence, according to a paper published in the November issue of Infection and Immunity. Call it a sugar coating, if you will, for in fact, the ...More
November 16, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

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