Research
Immune System Disease
Fighting Ability
Part 3
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The
following are articles about research on the ability of
the immune system to fight diseases. This section includes
some of the latest research on finding a cancer vaccine:
Article 17: Scientists
Identify Cell Defects That Limit Immune System's Impact
On Late-stage Tumors Although vaccines developed to
help the immune system fight tumors appear to have an impact
against early-stage tumors, they have little if any success
in slowing the growth of tumors in later stages. Now researchers
identify abnormalities in the immune system disease fighting
capability and describe how the defects might be detected
and repaired...
Article 16: Study
Evaluates Immune Response To Telomerase Tumor Antigen As
Possible Breast Cancer Vaccine Researchers have begun
a clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a telomerase
peptide as a possible vaccine against breast cancer. The
study will measure potential tumor cell shrinkage in patients
after an immune system disease fighting response has been
triggered to an antigen found in more than 90 percent of
breast cancer tumors...
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Article 15: Study By
UCSD Gives New Insight Into How Anthrax Bacteria Can Evade A Host's
Immune Response Biologists at the University of California,
San Diego have determined how toxin produced by anthrax bacteria
blocks a person's normal immune system disease fighting response,
a discovery that could lead to new treatments for anthrax infection...
Article 14: Ebola Virus-like
Particles Prevent Lethal Ebola Virus Infection Scientists
have successfully immunized mice against Ebola virus using hollow
virus-like particles, or VLPs, which are non-infectious but capable
of provoking a robust immune system disease fighting response...
Article 13: HIV Vaccine
In Worldwide Trial Vanderbilt University Medical Center is
participating in worldwide tests of a potential vaccine that can
stimulate important immune system disease fighting responses against
the virus that causes AIDS. This
is the first candidate vaccine against the human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) to be studied simultaneously in so many locations,
from Brazil to Thailand...
Article 12: Emory Researchers
Discover Novel Mechanism Of How Anthrax Impairs Immunity Researchers
have shown that anthrax lethal factor (LF) impairs the function
of dendritic cells and thereby compromises the immune system disease
fighting ability. The findings have implications for developing
more effective anthrax therapies and guiding researchers in better
controlling detrimental immune responses...
Article 11: Cancer
Vaccine One Step Closer Andreea Ioan-Facsinay has attached
proteins from tumour cells to antibodies. With these she treated
immune cells from a mouse. These treated cells were used to make
a vaccine, which was shown to be effective in animal experiments.
If the follow-up research is successful, vaccines against cancer
will become available...
Article 10: New Hope For
Vaccine To Fight Rheumatoid Arthritis, Other Autoimmune Diseases
Promising animal test results that could lead to a vaccine to
fight rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis (MS) and other
autoimmune diseases were announced by researchers. The vaccine
reversed an arthritic-like disease in rats by mobilizing part
of the immune system to protect joints under attack by other immune
cells...
Article 9: Researchers
Identify A Gene Essential For The Natural Killer Cell Response
Against Cancer The innate immune response must defend the
body against onslaughts from foreign substances it has never before
seen. Failure of this immune system disease fighting component
can result in cancer, autoimmune disease, or life threatening
viral infections...
Article 8: Rare Disorder
Provides New Insight Into Fighting Infection Through studying
a genetic condition known to exist in only two individuals, scientists
have uncovered new knowledge about the immune system disease fighting
ability that is applicable to everyone. The scientists found that
an enzyme called caspase-8, known to help trigger apoptosis (the
programmed death of cells) is also involved in activating many
immune system cells to fight off disease...
Article 7: Brain
Cancer Vaccine Shows Promising Findings In Early Research At UCLA's
Jonsson Cancer Center An
experimental vaccine for brain cancer has shown promising results
in preliminary investigations. The
vaccine completely prevented brain tumor formation in laboratory
rats. In contrast, all of the rats that did not receive the vaccine
did not have the same immune system disease fighting ability because
they developed very aggressive brain tumors...
Article 6: DNA Arrays Give
Clues To Better Vaccines The methods researchers use to study
microbes has changed. Now they do not have to just watch cultures
of pathogens as the only way to see what they are doing. Scientists
are now able to listen to the cross talk between invading pathogens
and the immune system disease fighting cells...
Article 5: Researchers
Find How Tuberculosis Bacterium Evades Detection By Immune System
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the scourges of humans, infecting
about one-third of the world's population, or two billion people.
It kills an estimated eight million people annually. A new researched
project
reveals how the tuberculosis bacterium evades detection by the
body's immune system disease fighting cells...
Article 4: Methadone
Promotes HIV Infection In Cell Culture Methadone, the drug
that is widely used in drug treatment centers to treat heroin
addicts, stimulates HIV infection of human immune cells studied
in cell cultures. The
researchers proposed that HIV-infected patients receiving methadone
to treat drug abuse should have their blood and immune system
disease fighting status watched for possible adverse effects of
the treatment...
Article 3: Pancreatic
Cancer Vaccine Found Safe In Early Study Hopkins researchers
say early tests of a pancreatic cancer vaccine show it is safe
and successful in reaching immune system disease fighting cells.
The
vaccine, tested on 14 patients, uses lab-grown pancreatic cancer
cells genetically-modified with the immune-boosting gene GM-CSF...
Article
2: Researchers Successfully
Immunize Mice Against Aggressive Cancer So
far, immunized mice have survived for as long as 150 days after
exposure to active melanoma cells. Unprotected mice died in a
matter of weeks. This has important implications for boosting
the human immune disease fighting ability to ward off cancer...
Article
1: Human Immune System Defenseless
Against New Hong Kong Flu-Highly Unusual Infection Direct From
Poultry Typically, new influenza viruses pass through and
are genetically modified in other mammals, like pigs, before reaching
humans. A unique feature of this new virus is that it managed
to cross the avian-human species barrier without prior adaptation
in another mammalian species. Humans do not have the immune system
disease fighting ability to ward it off...
