How to Use interferon in a Sentence

interferon

noun

• At the heart of this imbalance is a protein called interferon, which helps defend the body against pathogens.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 10 July 2024
• Half will also be injected with interferon, while the other half will get a placebo.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• The sheer number of interferon genes some bats have hints at a flexible, more nuanced response.
  — Rachel Ehrenberg, Ars Technica, 3 July 2020
• Once a cell has become infected by a virus, the interferons alert the surrounding cells.
  — Lucy Cooke, ajc, 3 July 2018
• 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
• And the interferon shots hold even bigger promise, scientists said.
  — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Different immune cells like white blood cells tend to produce interferons when there’s some kind of infection or cancer.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• Cells secrete interferon into their surroundings, warning other cells to put up their guard.
  — Amber Dance, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2023
• Yet many viruses have evolved ways to dampen cells’ interferon production or evade detection.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2023
• 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 body naturally releases interferon when faced with an invader of some kind, such as a virus or other pathogen.
  — NBC News, 12 Nov. 2020
• Eventually, the host’s interferon response overwhelms both types of viruses and kills them.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Apr. 2019
• For years, scientists have known that interferon treatment can also lead to fatigue and depression in some patients.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sensing the fake virus, the cell responded by producing interferon lambda.
  — Annie Melchor, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2024
• 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
• And some strains of the virus appear to have developed defense mechanisms against the interferon response, blunting its effect.
  — Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 3 July 2024
• 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
• The primary agent in the activation of the innate immune system is interferon.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• 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
• In two papers published in Science, the team identified two variants of faulty interferon production.
  — Alexander Zaitchik, The New Republic, 2 Feb. 2021
• He was prescribed a drug cocktail, a combination of interferon and ribavirin, that proved ineffective and gave him severe side effects.
  — Abdullahi Tsanni, STAT, 29 June 2023
• The interferons then trigger a cascade of other chemicals to be produced including cytokines.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• This contributes to the overproduction of interferon receptors seen in those with Down syndrome.
  — Joaquin Espinosa, The Conversation, 5 June 2023
• 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
• Interferon lambda, on the other hand, is a type III interferon.
  — Annie Melchor, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2024