Latest Immune system Stories
With the growing concern over gluten related illnesses, there's no better time to order celiac and gluten allergy testing from Request A Test. Disocunted test prices are available, so order today. Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) February 12, 2013 A health concern that has been gaining more awareness recently is gluten intolerance. In recent years, representatives from the medical community, including television’s Dr. Oz, have been emphasizing the importance of being tested for conditions...
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- EpiVax, Inc. is pleased to announce a new Collaborative Research Agreement with Novozymes Biopharma. The collaboration will enable EpiVax to rapidly advance its Tregitope immune-modulating technology as a potential treatment for autoimmune diseases. When used as a buffering agent, albumin has excellent safety and pharmacokinetic profiles. Fusing Tregitopes to Novozymes' proven albumin-based half-life extension platform will create a...
TORONTO, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - SCiAN Services, Inc., a North American Clinical Data Management - Biostatistics CRO and EDC solution provider announces that Adaptimmune has selected SCiAN's EDC(PRO) platform to manage its clinical trials starting in 2013. Following a review of several EDC vendors and CROs a services agreement was executed with SCiAN to deliver a comprehensive systems and services solution for Web-based data capture and data management, including...
Concerns and anxieties about one’s close relationships appear to function as a chronic stressor that can compromise immunity, according to new research. In the study, researchers asked married couples to complete questionnaires about their relationships and collected saliva and blood samples to test participants’ levels of a key stress-related hormone and numbers of certain immune cells. The research focused on attachment anxiety. Those who are on the high end of the attachment...
NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTC: AEMD), announced today that their February 7th RetailInvestorConferences.com presentation is now available for on-demand viewing. LINK: www.retailinvestorconferences.com> red "register/ watch event now" button Aethlon Medical's presentation will be available 24/7 for 90 days. Investors may download shareholder materials from the "virtual trade booth" for the next three weeks. About Aethlon Medical Aethlon...
Alere Pima™ CD4 test provides point-of-care HIV health status in under 20 minutes Waltham, Massachusetts (PRWEB) February 09, 2013 Alere Inc. is pleased to announce that, with the aid of a revolutionary point-of-care device, World Health Clinicians, a US-based nongovernmental organization, were able to provide absolute CD4 counts for patients living with HIV in rural Zimbabwe in under 20 minutes. This outcome is the result of a proof-of-concept evaluation World Health Clinicians...
A new report suggests that the concentration of one human cytokine, interleukin 7 (IL-7), in the semen of HIV-1-infected men may be a key determinant of the efficiency of HIV-1 transmission to an uninfected female partner. In their study published February 7 in the Open Access journal PLOS Pathogens, a research group from the Eunice Kennedy-Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) led by Leonid Margolis report that the increased IL-7 concentration in semen...
Research by UC Riverside plant pathologists is the first to show that RNA silencing regulates plant defense against the notorious Phytophthora pathogens When a pathogen attacks a plant, infection usually follows after the plant’s immune system is compromised. A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside focused on Phytophthora, the pathogen that triggered the Irish Famine of the 19th century, and deciphered how it succeeded in crippling the potato plant’s immune...
A new approach mimicking the body's natural defenses could help treat a therapy-resistant breast cancer Cancer drugs of the new, molecular generation destroy malignant breast tumors in a targeted manner: They block characteristic molecules on tumor cells - receptors for the hormones estrogen or progesterone, or a co-receptor, called HER2, that binds to many growth factors. But about one in every six breast tumors has none of these receptors. Such cancers, called triple-negative, are...
WORCESTER, Mass. and TORONTO, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Generex Biotechnology Corporation (www.generex.com) (OTCBB:GNBT) today provided an overview of the current pipeline and potential of its wholly-owned subsidiary Antigen Express, Inc. (www.antigenexpress.com). While the Company is currently in a late Phase IIb trial of a very promising new immunotherapy for early breast cancer (AE37), the Company has made concrete headway in demonstrating a robust pipeline for AE37 indications...
Latest Immune system Reference Libraries
The appendix is a dead-end tube like structure, ranging from 2 to 20 cm, that spans off the cecum of the colon. It is attached to the lower part of the large intestine. Formation and Orientation The appendix can be found in many mammals including marsupials, euarchontoglires (rodents) as wells as humans of course. It is also an organ that forms in the embryotic stage during pregnancy. McBurney’s Point, the point that is one-third the distance from infront and above the spinal cord...
A lymph node is an immune system organ that is widely distributed throughout various places in the body. There are about 500-600 nodes in an individual adult, with clusters of lymph nodes found in the underarms, groin, neck, chest, and abdomen. The lymphatic system as a whole is responsible for acting as the body’s primary mechanism of defense. Each node is oval-shaped, and measures between a few millimeters and a few centimeters long. They are linked to one another by lymphatic vessels and...
The thymus gland is an endocrine organ of the immune system located anteriolateral to the trachea and in between the lungs. Its primary function is to build T lymphocytes for the body’s immune system; therefore, it is most important during childhood and puberty, when it reaches its maximum size. After puberty, it will begin to atrophy and shrink in size. Old age generally brings about hypotrophy of the thymus. In children the thymus is grayish-pink in color and in adults it is yellow. On...
A virus is a small infectious agent that replicates inside the living cells of organisms. It is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms. Most are too small to be seen by anything but a microscope and they infect all organisms from animals to plants to bacteria. The first one discovered was the tobacco virus in 1898. Since then around 5,000 viruses have been described in detail although there are millions of different types. They are found in...
