The researchers believe a person's immunological parameters could provide an indication of their true biological age.
These men experienced an immunological firestorm in that the antibody caused the uncontrolled release of toxins.
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Dr Miller and his colleagues think they have the explanation for this immunological apathy.
Dr Chess is the first to admit that the immunological analogy is closer in some respects than in others.
Something which activated the innate immune system as well would provide immunological braces to add to that pharmaceutical belt.
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But Dr Forrest's preliminary tests suggest that her immunological approach is surprisingly effective.
Currently, most collagen used in these applications come from animals, and for medical use, that can pose some immunological issues.
"A pregnant woman has to accommodate this foreign body of the growing fetus, so there is an immunological shift that occurs in pregnancy, " she said.
Unfortunately, in the past few decades, there have been hundreds of studies linking stress to everything from immunological disorders to heart disease to periodonitic troubles.
If their synthetic collagen is successful, it might provide a means for people who require reconstructive surgery to improve the healing process without the risk of immunological complications.
The research is published in the Journal of Immunological Methods.
He said it was clear that a variety of genetic and immunological factors affected an individual's response to HIV infection - and ways to measure these factors would become key.
And allergies, too, are caused by immunological malfunctions.
The reason for this was that the polyandrous females suffered a far lower rate of spontaneous abortion, which occurs when genetic incompatibility between the maternal and paternal genomes results in an immunological conflict between mother and embryo.
Though it is not clear whether that immunological shift translates into a greater likelihood of contracting the virus, there is no doubt that it can result in more severe illness among pregnant women who are infected with it, she said.
In a paper in the Journal of Immunological Methods, Wendy Dittmer of Philips claims to have achieved a 100, 000-fold increase in detection speed by hurrying magnetically tagged molecules of parathyroid hormone towards the spin valve with an electromagnet instead of allowing them to diffuse there.
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