Age brings about changes to the immune system that mean older people ... If a pathogen breaches the exterior, first-line barrier, the second-line internal defences come into play. The hallmark of the ...

Innate lymphoid cells, which curiously behave like T cells even though they don’t recognize specific antigens, show promise as a potential cancer therapeutic.

The anatomical ... signify a breach in barrier and are met with a full-blown systemic response. This compartment-specific outcome of sensing by the innate immune system is mediated by distinct ...

The immune system is an organization of ... Any organism that breaks through this first barrier encounters the two further levels of defense, the innate and acquired immune responses.

The immune system’s front line of defence against pathogens are the barriers presented by surfaces ... Her research focuses on innate immunity and host defence in the lung.

Photograph by MedicalRF, Science Source Not confined to a particular set of organs, the immune ... barriers of the skin and mucous membranes, which block and trap invaders. A second, the innate ...

Taparowsky, a professor of biological sciences. In a healthy system, these innate immune cells reside under the epithelial cell barrier that lines the intestine. When a pathogen arrives and ...

Your body's first lines of defence against invading pathogens such as viruses is the innate immune system, which includes skin and other barriers, molecules like antiviral 'interferons', and white ...

a switch to innate type 2 immunity may represent a powerful adaptation of the immune system to promote host survival in the face of ongoing barrier challenges.

A research team at the University of Münster has investigated for the first time how the confrontation of bacteria with hosts ...