How to Use interferon in a Sentence

interferon

noun

• Lambda is a type of interferon that has effects specifically in the liver and lungs, not the whole body.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2023
• The virus transferred the gene to the moth cells, which duly secreted human interferon.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 3 Nov. 2020
• Once a cell has become infected by a virus, the interferons alert the surrounding cells.
  — Lucy Cooke, ajc, 3 July 2018
• And when her team treated the organoids with drugs that blocked their cells from mounting an interferon response, the influenza viruses thrived.
  — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 18 Nov. 2022
• A year later, the company had figured out how to clone interferon, a signaling protein that could treat a form of leukemia.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 2 May 2018
• The sheer number of interferon genes some bats have hints at a flexible, more nuanced response.
  — Rachel Ehrenberg, Ars Technica, 3 July 2020
• Half will also be injected with interferon, while the other half will get a placebo.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• The researchers are now testing the inhaled interferon in Covid-19 people who are not sick enough to be hospitalized.
  — NBC News, 12 Nov. 2020
• The cheater does not have the ability to suppress its host’s defenses; in fact, its presence stimulates the release of interferons.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Apr. 2019
• This isn’t the case with patients that progress to severe disease, who often display signs of robust interferon response.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• The bone marrow stem cells in this case come from a stock supply and are engineered to produce a protein that inhibits tumor growth called interferon-beta.
  — Elie Dolgin, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
• Both Beta and Delta drive down interferon in infected cells.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2021
• In the case of severe flu, Casanova's team has identified two gene defects, one that limits the production of virus-fighting interferons and one not yet published.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 13 July 2018
• At least 11 of the coronavirus’s 26 proteins interact with the interferon system, and many of those are mutated in Omicron.
  — Megan Scudellari, Scientific American, 11 Feb. 2022
• And the interferon shots hold even bigger promise, scientists said.
  — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• The body naturally releases interferon when faced with an invader of some kind, such as a virus or other pathogen.
  — NBC News, 12 Nov. 2020
• In the early days of a coronavirus infection, an interferon boost might help your innate immune system contain the virus.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• The primary target is interferon, the protein that protects the infected cell and alerts surrounding cells to the presence of an invading pathogen.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• Tests in mice and ferrets — which catch flu in very much the same way that people do — showed the interferons could not only kill this particular flu virus easily; the body also produced a lot of them in response to the vaccine.
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2018
• Eventually, the host’s interferon response overwhelms both types of viruses and kills them.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Apr. 2019
• Disabling interferon is like knocking down a castle’s gate.
  — Liz Szabo, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2021
• Interferon lambda, on the other hand, is a type III interferon.
  — Annie Melchor, Quanta Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• The primary agent in the activation of the innate immune system is interferon.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• The drugs being tested include remdesivir, chloroquine and two drug cocktails used to fight HIV, lopinavir plus ritonavir and lopinavir, ritonavir, and interferon.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2020
• For years, scientists have known that interferon treatment can also lead to fatigue and depression in some patients.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• For example, one way that cells try to respond to infection is by making interferon, the alarm signaling protein.
  — Benjamin Neuman, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2020
• One of the bats Brook and her fellow researchers studied was the Australian black flying fox, which has reserves of interferon on perpetual standby to fight infection.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2020
• When the timing is just right, the interferon response triggered by an initial infection could prevent a second virus from replicating, too.
  — NBC News, 18 Jan. 2022
• Those proteins swarm the human Tom70 proteins, dampening the production of interferon and a full immune response.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2021
• The researchers suggested that those innate interferon responses in children restrain the virus and progression of the disease.
  — Mark Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024