Sentences with phrase «as antibodies attack»

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The immune system normally produces antibodies to attack foreign substances in the body, such as bacteria.

If abnormal antibodies are discovered, researchers will notify the patient or caregiver, so that they may consider asking their health care provider about treatment options, such as using existing drugs that could suppress the production of the attacking antibodies.

One of the most crucial and elusive goals of an effective HIV vaccine is to stimulate antibodies that can attack the virus even as it relentlessly mutates.

The bacteria can seem so similar to human tissue that antibodies produced against it attack human organs as well.

Treating the mice with antibodies against CD4 + T - cells four weeks after experimental heart attacks — to deplete that subset of T - cells — prevented the progressive abnormal enlargement of the left ventricle that leads to heart failure, as compared with untreated mice.

As they predicted, these antibodies were unable to recognize or attack these H3 strains.

Once the antibody binds, the immune system sees the cell as foreign and launches an attack.

It is commonly misdiagnosed as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, but is a form of treatable brain inflammation caused by antibodies that attack the brain's NMDA receptors.

These antibodies persist over a patient's lifetime, causing their body to perceive a newly donated organ as a threat and so attack it.

In our laboratory we had the idea of localizing on tumor cells, with specific monoclonal antibodies, molecules, such as Major Histocompatibility Complexe (MHC), loaded with viral peptides, which can activate the T lymphocytes to attack the target tumor cells.

In 2007 it was revealed that many of these patients suffered from an autoimmune disease (where the patient's antibodies attack their own brain as foreign material).

That being said, if it's too sensitive, your immune system can overreact, producing antibodies to attack what it perceives as a «dangerous» substance, even if it's just a fragrant flower.

In those with gluten sensitivity, the GALT identifies gliadin as a dangerous substance and produces antibodies to attack it.

Dr. Ruscio: Well, the exciting thing is we finally actually have a test where we can test antibodies against these cells and against a component of this attack known as a vinculin.

This means that gluten is perceived by the body as an invader and the gluten antibodies attack the gluten itself trying to destroy it.

Many Hashimoto's - related factors affect brain health: Gluten sensitivity often manifests as brain disorders The thyroid antibodies that cause attack of the thyroid gland can also bind to brain tissue and accelerate degeneration The brain needs sufficient...

The thyroid antibodies indicate that the thyroid gland has been recognized as a foreign invader by the immune system and that the thyroid gland is under attack.

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This leakage results in immune system production of antibodies to attack these foreign proteins as if they were invading microbes.

As with Hashimoto's thyroiditis, antibodies attack the thyroid, but in this case they stimulate the thyroid to overproduce thyroid hormone.

APS (also known as astragalus polysaccharide) has been shown to activate the immune system by enhancing the transformation of T lymphocytes (a sub-type of white blood cells, crucial in the regulation of immune responses), as well as the activation of B lymphocytes (which produce antibodies that are used to attack invading bacteria, viruses, and toxins) and dendritic cells, which trigger immune reactions to toxins.

It means that now the immune system recognises colon as the source of the problem it attacks the gastrointestinal tract sending antibodies against it causing inflammation and damage.

Because the immune system recognises colon as the source of the problem it attacks the gastrointestinal tract sending antibodies against it causing inflammation and damage.

What happens in this situation is that the IgG antibody marks certain food particles as antigens, and when you eat these foods, the body mounts an inflammatory immune response and attack.

Our immune system is revved up and produces antibodies and specific white blood cells known as eosinophils to help attack the various critters.

Or it may occur if the immune system becomes confused, such as in someone who has antibodies to gluten that also end up attacking other parts of the body that resemble gluten.

If you are sensitive, your body will make antibodies to gliadin and attack the cells gliadin has attached itself to, treating those cells as an infection.

These antibodies cause damage in the body by causing inflammation as they attack other tissues.

In order to help identify them as targets that should be attacked by the immune cells, antibodies bind to these foreign cells.

The body identifies specific proteins found in milk as harmful antigens and thus produces antibodies to attack them.

The cat's immune system then makes antibodies to attack the virus, just as it would do if the virus was active and in its normal form.

This is important as these antibodies can attack parts of the canine's nervous system, causing neurological signs such as ataxia, paroxysmal movement disorders (abnormal movements during an episode) and even epilepsy.

Lymphocytes are important to the dog's immune system as they are a type of white blood cell that can produce antibodies that attack foreign matter, such as invading bacteria, viruses, and toxins associated with kennel cough virus (27).