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Article: USC researchers uncover mechanism that allows influenza virus to evade the body's immune response.
- Article from:
- Virus Weekly
- Article date:
- June 2, 2009
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Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a critical molecular mechanism that allows the influenza virus to evade the body's immune response system (see also University of Southern California).
The study will be published in the May 21 issue of the journal Cell Host & Microbe.
"We have found a mechanism that the influenza virus uses to inhibit the body's immune response that emphasizes the vital role of a certain protein in defending against viruses,"," says Jae Jung, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and the principal investigator ...