Sentence examples for slow immune response from inspiring English sources

The live vaccines did not provide post-exposure protection because of slow immune response to the vaccines and cannot be used for emergency immunization to control outbreaks.

A major finding of this study is that PBMCs from old subjects exhibited a slower immune response to PRR agonists compared to cells from adult individuals.

Pay attention to the following signs of malnutrition: reduced muscle/tissue mass, lethargy, difficulty staying warm, slower immune response, difficulty breathing, and hair loss.

All attempts to make an AIDS vaccine have failed so far, and Dr. Plummer said his study might open up new approaches, like enhancing resistance genes or slowing immune responses.

These may explain the slow porcine immune response; however, the mechanism of this interference remains unclear [ 11].

Constitutive immune mechanisms may be more important to ectothermic vertebrates due to their slow metabolic rates and their relatively slow acquired immune responses of low magnitude (Hsu, 1998; Bayne and Gerwick, 2001; Chen et al., 2007).

It is likely advantageous to ectothermic vertebrates with low metabolic rates and slow humoral immune responses to retain persistent antibodies to ensure some resistance to previously encountered pathogens.

The protein is able to reduce the motility of infected dendritic cells towards the T-cell and can thus slow down the immune response and favour persistence.

The tight immune regulation necessary for optimal defense against infectious agents has been likened to the porridge sampled by Goldilocks in the home of the three bears (Germain 2001): whereas a slow or weak immune response risks being overwhelmed by rising parasitaemia—'too cold' an overzealous one may lead to severe disease because of the destructive effects it exerts on host tissue—'too hot'.

Daud et al. [ 11] have demonstrated that treatment of a few melanoma nodules in the patient can elicit, in certain patients, slow, but an efficient immune response of the organism that results in regression of the treated and also nontreated nodules, as well as prolonged survival without progression of the disease.

In more extreme cases of autoimmune thrombocytopenia, a doctor may prescribe intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) or antibodies to further slow the body's immune response.[6].