1. Among the discoveries made in psychoneuroimmunology is that stressful events can make the immune cells far less responsive to infection. 2. Conversely, mediators produced by immune cells can influence nerve cells - histamine and prostaglandins both have this effect. 3. Since receiving the baboon Marrow, Getty has had moderate increases in his immune cell numbers, Deeks said. 4. The children now have normal immune cell counts and live at home, without treatment. 5. When triggered, the alarm seems to call in squads of immune cells that surround tuberculosis bacteria and keep them from spreading. 6. Although HIV kills the immune cells sent to kill the virus, there is widespread variation in the rate at which HIV infected people become ill with AIDS. 7. And at the University of Catania in Italy, researchers using immune cells from female rats succeeded in stimulating cell division with GnRH. 8. And in cases of infection, the blister may be a pustule, filled with pus, a cloudy liquid containing immune cells recruited to fight infective invaders. 9. And, unlike implants of human or animal fetal cells, the Spheramine cells are not attacked by immune cells in the brain. 10. Anthrax bacteria, though, produce a toxin that sends one class of immune cells called macrophages into overdrive. |