Science news articles about 'interferon response'

... the relevant mechanisms that underlie this defect in IFN signaling… with the hope that such mechanisms can be manipulated to restore interferon responsiveness in the otherwise nonresponsive host."

... diseases in humans. "It's the first demonstration that a virus causes suppression of the interferon response in vivo," says the paper's senior author Michael Oldstone, a Scripps Research professor ...

... . But the hepatitis C virus actively fights back against the effects triggered by interferon. "The body's interferon responses and the virus' counter-responses are like evenly-matched boxers -- ...

... , as well as melanoma and gastrointestinal cancer patients, expressed significantly lower levels of interferon-responsive signaling molecules than did lymphocytes from healthy patients. "They have a ...

... influenza virus replication by the type 1 interferon response in mice. Journal of Virology, 83 ... L5 induced the activation of the host immune responses and protected the mice from death due to infection ...