Sentence examples for heightened immunity from inspiring English sources

The evidence that sharks are at least resistant to cancer and disease is mostly anecdotal and there have been few, if any, scientific or statistical studies that show sharks to have heightened immunity to disease.

Such a "hygiene hypothesis," has been advanced for hepatitis A [33], and would favor past as well as ongoing infections contributing to a state of heightened immunity.

These facts suggest that both suppression of tumor immunity and a heightened immune reaction might each be therapeutic although very contrasting modalities.

Thus, heightened immune traits such as haemolymph PO activity in females may not be indicative of greater immunity, but rather a side-effect of a greater need for melanin.

Cellular states of heightened innate immunity during the time of stimulation can condition cells preferentially to State 1 leading to self-enforcing IL-8 production and release, high recruitment of neutrophils, and a high level of neutrophil elastase production.

This suggests either impaired Th1 or heightened Th2 immunity as a mechanism for virus-induced airway inflammation.

While this could be achieved through heightened innate immunity, honey bees, as eusocial animals, have the added capacity for social behaviors that enable resistance to pathogens.

12– 14 Heightened natural immunity was found in all three tissues.

This heightened state of immune activity during and after a viral epidemic increases herd immunity, making it difficult for additional viruses to become established in a population (Ånestad 1987).

Immunosenescence involves cellular and molecular alterations that impact both innate and adaptive immunity, leading to increased incidences of infectious disease morbidity and mortality as well as heightened rates of other immune disorders such as autoimmunity, cancer, and inflammatory conditions.

The model does not include an acute infection category due to their small probable contribution (<2%) to HCV transmission even if they have heightened viremia [ 14] and also ignores any immunity following treatment or spontaneous clearance.