News tagged with maternal antibodies
Rethinking the antibody-dependent enhancement dengue hemorrhagic fever model
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Research published this week in PLoS Medicine challenges the dogma of the antibody-dependent enhancement model (ADE) for the development of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF).
Vaccine expert advises: Immunization should be given as early in life as possible
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Sep 15, 2009 |
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Parents should not be worried, that early vaccination would overwhelm their babies. Recent data show, that the immune system of newborns is able to respond to a world full of antigens already at birth. Therefore, vaccines ...
Maternal immune response to fetal brain during pregnancy a key factor in some autism
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 17, 2009 |
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New studies in pregnant mice using antibodies against fetal brains made by the mothers of autistic children show that immune cells can cross the placenta and trigger neurobehavioral changes similar to autism in the mouse ...
Giving an additional early vaccination may reduce measles outbreaks
Jul 25, 2008 |
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Outbreaks of measles in developing countries may be reduced by vaccinating infants at 4.5 months of age as well as at the World Health Organization's recommended routine vaccination at 9 months, according to a study published ...
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Autism's origins: Mother's antibody production may affect fetal brain
Feb 25, 2008 |
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The mothers of some autistic children may have made antibodies against their fetuses’ brain tissue during pregnancy that crossed the placenta and caused changes that led to autism, suggests research led by Johns Hopkins Children’s ...
Research rules out link between specific antibodies and spina bifida
Jul 08, 2009 |
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New research, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, shows that a woman's risk of having a child with a neural tube defect (NTD), such as Spina Bifida, is not linked to folic acid related auto-antibodies. The f ...
Researchers induce HIV-neutralizing antibodies that recognize HIV-1 envelope protein, lipids
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 01, 2009 |
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For the first time, researchers have experimentally induced antibodies that neutralize HIV-1 and simultaneously recognize both HIV-1 envelope protein and lipids. The results were reported by U.S. Military HIV Research Program ...
Mother's immune system may block fetal treatments for blood diseases
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Pediatric researchers have resolved an apparent contradiction in the field of prenatal cell transplantation— a medical approach that holds future promise in correcting sickle cell disease and other serious congenital blood ...
Prenatal exposure to maternal antibodies linked to autistic behaviors in offspring
Feb 11, 2008 |
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New research from the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute shows that an interaction between fetal brain cells and maternal antibodies could be linked with the repetitive behavior – also called stereotypies – that is characteristic ...
Immune response to spinal cord injury may worsen damage
Sep 21, 2009 |
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After spinal cord injury, certain immune cells collect in the spinal fluid and release high levels of antibodies. What, if anything, those antibodies do there is unknown.
Antimicrobial antibodies in celiac disease: Trick or treat?
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Anti-microbial antibody formation has been reported in celiac disease. Relatively high positivity rates were observed for the conventional antibodies, for example, ASCA, anti-OmpW, and anti-I2, and they were known to decrease ...
New findings suggest strategy to help generate HIV-neutralizing antibodies
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 19, 2009 |
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New discoveries about anti-HIV antibodies may bring researchers a step closer to creating an effective HIV vaccine, according to a new paper co-authored by scientists at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute ...
NIH launches 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine trials in HIV-infected pregnant women
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 10, 2009 |
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The first clinical trials to test whether the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine can safely elicit a protective immune response in pregnant women launched yesterday, and a trial to conduct the same test in HIV-infected children ...
Pregnant mom's exposure to flu vaccine kick-starts fetal immune system
Jun 01, 2007 |
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Some researchers have hypothesized that the fetus can be exposed to and mount an immune response against allergens to which the mother has been exposed, and this may have an effect on the development of allergic sensitivity ...
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