News and Research
Immune System Support
Part 5

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In order to further understand the many ways that the immune function works in the body we are presenting the following medical research articles. This research is on various aspects of enhancing immune system support for the body:

Article 17: Look To Food-borne Pathogen Pathway May Be Key To Vaccine A previously unidentified protein on the surface of intestinal cells is giving Purdue University researchers clues on how to give support to prevent disease. The scientists believe their results eventually could lead to a way to prevent food-borne Listeria monocytogenes infection, which has a 20 percent fatality rate, as well as other diseases...

Article 16: Scientists Identify A Human Antibody That Blocks SARS Virus Infection Everyone exposed to SARS needs immune system support. Researchers found that an antibody plucked from a "library" of human antibodies has powerfully blocked infection by the SARS virus in laboratory tests. This discovery could expedite the development of an antibody drug for the prevention or early treatment of SARS, which killed nearly 800 people in a global outbreak last year...

Article 15: Pacifying Bacteria Prevents Lethal Post-op Infections Researchers tested a novel way to give immune system support to mice. By injecting a protective coating into their intestines to pacify bacteria there instead of relying on antibiotics to kill them, the scientists were able to protect mice from otherwise lethal infections. The protective coating, a high-molecular-weight polyethylene glycol, protected mice who had had major surgery from infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a virulent pathogen that quickly kills 100 percent of untreated mice...

Article 14: Study Shows Low Risk Of Vaccinia Transfer After Smallpox Immunization The threat of bioterrorism has led to the recommendation to give immunity support to health care workers and other first responders through vaccination, but some worry about the side effects of smallpox vaccination, which can harm children, pregnant women and people with immune disorders or certain skin conditions...

Article 13: First US Tuberculosis Vaccine Trial In 60 Years Begins A new vaccine, made with several proteins from the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), will soon enter the first phase of human safety testing. "This is the first recombinant tuberculosis vaccine to reach human trials in the United States," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. Indeed, this is the first new TB vaccine to be tested in our country in more than 60 years"...

Article 12: Fat Cells Fight Disease, Purdue University Researchers Find Fat cells, commonly blamed for a number of diseases, also may aid in the body's defense against illnesses such as diabetes and cancer, according to Purdue University researchers. Rather than contributing to disease, fat cells, or adipocytes, normally function as part of immunity and help control lipid accumulation, so they actually may benefit human health, said Michael Spurlock...

Article 11: Researchers Unlock Key Secrets Showing How Tumors Hide From Immune System In one of the biggest advances in understanding immunity to come from the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in its 16-year history, researchers have unlocked at least part of the mystery of how tumors flourish undetected by keeping their presence a secret from sentries of the body's immunity system...

Article 10: Potential For Pathogens To Evolve Missing From Emerging-disease Models With outbreaks of new and frightening infectious diseases such as SARS and monkey pox jumping from the animal kingdom to humans we need to support the immune system. Tracking the spread of these diseases is vital to public health efforts to contain them...

Article 9: Linking The Immune System With Lipid Metabolism A team of researchers led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has discovered a family of proteins that connect the immune system to the body's lipids--the fat molecules that are a major building block of the human body...

Article 8: Researchers Find Plant Immune System's 'Take Two Aspirin' Gene, Offering Hope For Disease Control Without Agricultural Pesticides Scientists have found the gene that sends a signal through plant immune systems, calling for support for the immune system and saying, in effect: "Take two aspirin and call out the troops – we're under attack!"...

Article 7: Understanding How Lymph Nodes Respond To Infection May Redefine How Immunity Functions Duke University Medical Center researchers may have solved the mystery of why lymph nodes swell when the body fights infection. Their findings may redefine how the immune system functions and lead to breakthroughs support for immunity...

Article 6: Enzyme Revealed That Is Key To Fungus's Ability To Breach Immune System A newly discovered mechanism by which an infectious fungus evades the immune system could lead to novel methods for immune system support to fight the fungus and other disease-causing microbes...

Article 5: UBC Researcher Discovers 'Control Room' That Regulates Immune Responses The approximately 50 million people in the U.S. who suffer from autoimmune diseases like HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and arthritis, may soon be able to have immunity support to control their responses, thanks to a breakthrough discovery by a researcher at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada...

Article 4: Emory Scientists Track Down Immune Sentinel Cells With Gene Gun Dendritic cells monitor foreign substances in the body and communicate whether they present a danger to the rest of the immune system. Emory immunologists have developed a sensitive method to detect and follow dendritic cells by marking them with a change in their DNA, and have discovered that they are more numerous and longer lived than other scientists had previously observed...

Article 3: SARS Will Appear Again, As Will Other Viruses Incubating In 'Pandora's Boxes' Around The World, UB Expert Predicts The world can expect more SARS-like outbreaks in the near future due to evolving cultural, environmental and economic conditions that provide viruses with new opportunities to infect humans and we need to further understand how to support immunity to deal with these outbreaks...

Article 2: Technique Brings Immune-based Therapies Closer To Reality Johns Hopkins researchers have developed an inexpensive, reliable way to make large quantities of targeted immune cells that one day may provide support in the form of a life-saving defense against cancers and viral infections...

Article 1: Immune Response Depends On Key Molecule, According To New Study Scientists at University Health Network's Advanced Medical Discovery Institute (AMDI)/Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI) have shown that a molecule called caspase-8 plays a key role in the immune response, by controlling how T-cells are activated to respond to infections...