News tagged with mhc proteins

Study shows animal mating choices more complex than once thought

When female tiger salamanders choose a mate, it turns out that size does matter - tail size that is - and that's not the only factor they weigh.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Why bad immunity genes survive: Study implicates arms race between genes and germs

University of Utah biologists found new evidence why mice, people and other vertebrate animals carry thousands of varieties of genes to make immune-system proteins named MHCs – even though some of those ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds potential key to immune suppression in cancer

In a study investigating immune response in cancer, researchers from Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the University of South Florida have found that interaction between the immune system's antigen-specific CD4 T ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Pinpointing asthma susceptibility in Japanese adults

A team of geneticists has identified five specific gene regions associated with asthma susceptibility among Japanese adults. Mayumi Tamari of the RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine, Yokohama, led the research.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Exploring the mechanism behind the differentiation of immune cells

Ichiro Taniuchi at the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Japan, is carrying out research to understand the mysteries of organism evolution by investigating the mechanism responsible for the ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers find genes that help frogs resist fungus

(PhysOrg.com) -- For several decades, the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has been decimating frogs, yet some populations and species have been able to resist the fatal disease, called ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Gene flux can foretell survival for trauma patients

The onset of inflammation and infection in a person recovering from a trauma such as a car accident or severe burns can be as deadly as the incident itself. New findings from Princeton University researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Vaccine linked to 'bleeding calf syndrome'

Bleeding calf syndrome (bovine neonatal pancytopenia or BNP) affects new born calves resulting in low blood cell counts and depletion of the bone marrow. It first emerged in 2007 and a serious number of cases are reported ...

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created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sequencing of cod genome reveals unique immune system characteristic

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working out of Norway's University of Oslo have discovered through sequencing the genome of the Atlantic cod that the fish doesn't have a gene critical to the immune system in ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Self or non-self: Social amoeba rely on genetic 'lock and key' to identify kin

The ability to identify self and non-self enables cells in more sophisticated animals to ward off invading infections, but it is critical to even simpler organisms such as the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers slow immune attack on ovaries in mice

(Medical Xpress) -- In a study of mice, researchers have slowed an immune system attack on the ovaries. The mice developed a disorder resembling primary ovarian insufficiency (POI), a menopause-like condition ...

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