... different enzyme from all other living organisms. F. tularensis is a highly infectious organism that causes morbidity and mortality in humans. Very little is known about its molecular mechanisms of ...
... develop into tissues, as well as turn up markers of disease, such as cancer, or strategies for battling infectious organisms," said first author Scott T. Laughlin, who, like Baskin, is a graduate ...
... they swarmed around the sand fly bite sites and efficiently engulfed the parasites. But unlike many other infectious organisms that die inside neutrophils, L. major parasites appear to have evolved ...
... based on the properties of dendritic cells, whose role is to present specific proteins from infectious organisms at their surface, thereby alerting the rest of the immune system. In collaboration with ...
... arms, the abdomen and the legs are triggered by different infectious organisms. Thus, each artery functions ... alerts the immune system early during an infectious attack. Toll-like receptors can respond ...
... of the effects of GM-CSF. The lack of GM-CSF activity impairs the cells' ability to remove infectious organisms from the lungs.
The multi-institutional team studied the cases of ...
... think some of those strains help their human hosts by aiding digestion and blocking other infectious organisms. To study how friendly and infection-causing E. coli strains differ, Henderson and ...
... cytokines made by B cells regulate both humoral and cellular protective immune responses to infectious organisms," says Dr. Lund. "In addition to protective effects, we also suggest that cytokine- ...
... the infection.
"Vaccines 'educate' the immune system to recognize a specific molecule on the surface of infectious organisms," explains Seeberger. "The synthesizer allows us to make not one but many ...
... , which work by triggering the body's immune system to manufacture antibodies against an infectious organism, the STEP trial was testing a vaccine that would, instead, stimulate the immune system's ...
... have two important functions: Turning off immune reactions following a successful defense against infectious organisms, and preventing immune cells from attacking the body's own tissues, which are ...
... order to ensure that the drugs of today remain effective into the future. The resistance of infectious organisms to antibiotics is particularly serious in drugs against fungi. Fungal cells are similar ...
