Sentence examples for immune defect from inspiring English sources

We conclude that defective NOD1/2 signalling is a common immune defect in XLP2 and thus may contribute to the pathogenesis, and propose that certain SMCs may be used to modulate NOD2-mediated inflammation.

The results indicate that the immune defect in pigs shares the same features as other SCID-affected species.

To investigate the effects of immune mediators and the probability of an immune defect as well as localized allergic responses due to candida, we examined the cytokines IL-4, IL-5, IL-13 as well as prostaglandin E2 (PgE2), candida-specific IgE and total-IgE in patients with a clinical diagnosis of RVVC.

The patient had no apparent immune defect (notably, no complement anomaly was detected) or known predisposing factor for meningococcal disease.

Lba has also been associated with Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS), which is characterized by a severe immune defect among other symptoms [68].

The lack of inflammatory response to LPS by the stromal and epithelial cells could be associated with a more widespread immune defect in the endometrial cells derived from Tlr4−/− mice.

The gene expression data presented suggests that blood transfusion in this setting may be associated with specific immune defects in innate immunity and in Th1 and Th17 pathways.

> Liver cirrhosis patients are very susceptible to bacterial infections because of acquired immune defects of both humoral and cell-mediated immunity and bacterial translocation [ 3, 19].

Because Tube is required for Toll pathway function in both embryonic patterning and innate immunity, we wondered whether tub var mutants also display immune defects.

Humoral immunity triggers complement activation and genetically determined or acquired immune defects influence the risk of developing vascular inflammation (Table  2) [ 45, 46].

Therefore, some persons with apparently normal immunity infected with M. microti may in fact have undetected specific immune defects.