interferon-gamma

To see whether the screening was effective, British researchers analysed demographic and test result data from 2008 to 2010 at three immigrant screening centres in Britain using a highly specific blood test for detecting latent tuberculosis, called an interferon-gamma release assay IGRA.

Reuters: Top News 2011

To see whether the screening was effective, British researchers analysed demographic and test result data from 2008 to 2010 at three immigrant screening centres in Britain using a highly specific blood test for detecting latent tuberculosis, called an interferon-gamma release assay IGRA.

Reuters: Top News 2011

Research by scientists at the Cleveland Clinic and elsewhere have also shown that women and men naturally produce different levels of interferon-gamma and that higher levels of interferon-gamma can intensify the MS damage processes and make the disease worse.

The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

The fact that men have a lower frequency of the interferon-gamma genetic variant may be part of the reason why men are generally protected from MS.

The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

If you have a gene that produces high levels of interferon-gamma, or signaling proteins that tell the immune system to get active fast, it may predispose you to developing MS. Under this scenario men get MS less often because men, in general, are less likely to have a gene variant that is related to higher secretion of these cytokines.

The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

The fact that men have a lower frequency of the interferon-gamma genetic variant may be part of the reason why men are generally protected from MS.

The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

If you have a gene that produces high levels of interferon-gamma, or signaling proteins that tell the immune system to get active fast, it may predispose you to developing MS. Under this scenario men get MS less often because men, in general, are less likely to have a gene variant that is related to higher secretion of these cytokines.

The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

Research by scientists at the Cleveland Clinic and elsewhere have also shown that women and men naturally produce different levels of interferon-gamma and that higher levels of interferon-gamma can intensify the MS damage processes and make the disease worse.

The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

Drumming improves immunity: Group drumming resulted in increased dehydroepiandrosterone-to-cortisol ratios, increased natural killer cell activity, and increased lymphokine-activated killer cell activity without alteration in plasma interleukin 2 or interferon-gamma, or in the Beck Anxiety Inventory and the Beck Depression Inventory II.

Srinivasan Pillay: 7 Ways Music Breaks Can Improve Your Health 2010

Specifically, recreational music making increases many of the body's fighter cells: number of lymphocytes, T cells, CD4+ T cells, memory T cells, and production of interferon-gamma and interleukin-6.

Srinivasan Pillay: 7 Ways Music Breaks Can Improve Your Health 2010