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‘Cells can be immune.’

[⟨det (plur cell.n)⟩ immune.a]

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Some also bind to foreign antigens and present them to immune cells.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Much like soldiers who grow weary in battle, your immune cells can also lose some of their protective effects when your body is constantly battling poor health habits.
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Other investigators examine the interaction between HIV and the immune cells it attacks in order to identify ways to prevent or interrupt the process by which the virus destroys the immune system.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Previous research has suggested that its not individual HIV viruses that get into the brain but rather HIV – infected immune cells known as monocytes, says Dr. Harris Goldstein, director of the Einstein – Montefiore Medical Center for AIDS Research and senior author of the study.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Antibodies that stick to ‘self’ cells can lead to activation of the complement system (your self cells explode), or tell other immune cells to eat your self cells, or the antibodies might actually mimic a chemical signal and activate receptors on your cells in a weird way!
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The drug, sold under the brand name Rituxan by Genentech and Biogen Idec Inc and as MabThera by Roche AG in Europe, suppresses the rogue immune cells that cause the condition, the researchers found.
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Immunotoxicity probably results from cell death following apoptosis and necrosis, in combination with slow replacement of affected immune cells due to inhibition of protein synthesis.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Ruggenenti and his colleagues treated 50 patients withmembranous nephropathy with rituximab, which selectivelyreduces the effects of immune cells called B cells.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Crowe’s team was then able to isolate exceedingly rare B cells – the immune cells that produce antibodies – from eight of those samples and grow them in culture.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2008) – Researchers may be closer to understanding why anti-cancer drugs such as Ipilimumab, which boost the tumor – killing power of immune cells, haven’t fared well in clinical trials.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Crowe’s team was then able to isolate exceedingly rare B cells – the immune cells that produce antibodies – from eight of those samples and grow them in culture.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Previous studies show that an enzyme within the cell, called telomerase, keeps immune cells young by preserving their telomere length and ability to continue dividing.
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Factors promoting the differentiation of M cells have yet to be elucidated, but they are thought to develop in response to signals from immune cells found in the developing Peyer’s patch.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Immune cells absorb these proteins and, in turn, signal killer T cells to destroy pigment cells.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

How do the immune cells within the gut distinguish between potentially dangerous pathogens and harmless or beneficial commensal organisms? [Hint: It’s not through PAMPs (pathogen – associated molecular patterns.)] These investigators identified in mice a novel population of macrophages within the lamina propria, the layer of mucosa beneath the epithelium on the lumenal side of the intestine wall.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In battles against chronic infections, the body’s key immune cells often become exhausted and ineffective.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

All cells in the body become stronger in response to the increased G force during rebounding, and this cellular exercise results in the self-propelled immune cells being up to 5 times more active.
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The researchers found that when TB infects specialized immune cells in the lungs called macrophages, it turns the cells into incubators, allowing TB bacteria to multiply.
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With the ability to become all of the blood cells? including your immune cells, red blood cells, all of your blood system, as well as vasculature? hemangioblasts have been biology’s holy grail.
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Queried on 2013-05-25.