Sentences with phrase «affect immune cell function»

(4) Probiotics are thought to interact with immune cells that live in the gut, stimulating the production of secretory IgA which neutralizes viruses and bacteria in the gut (5) and also affects immune cell function systemically throughout the body.

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The most potently affected class of immune cells was plasmacytoid dendritic cells, known to affect the function of regulatory T - cells and the secretion of interferons, naturally occurring proteins that fend off viruses.
In asthma this aberrant immune response leads to immune cells infiltrating the lungs, where they cause inflammation that affects lung function and leads to difficulties in breathing.
Monitoring immune cell activity — including phenotyping immune cell subsets, tracking cell proliferation, and measuring cytokine production — can provide insights into the overall status of immune function in patients, particularly those undergoing immunosuppression after transplants, enduring cancer treatment, or suffering from autoimmune disease or other pathologies that affect the immune system.
His discoveries include insights into how changes in gene expression affect T cell exhaustion, a waning of immune function that occurs in response to chronic viral infection and cancer.
Persistent inflammation induced by prolonged or repetitive exposure to specific allergens, typically characterized not only by the presence of large numbers of innate and adaptive immune cells (in the form of leukocytes) at the affected site but also by substantial changes in the extracellular matrix and alterations in the number, phenotype and function of structural cells in the affected tissues.
They also improve immune functions by enhancing the natural killer cells that hunt down and dispose of cancer cells without affecting normal cells.
When it comes to migraines, it is theorized that an imbalance in the gut bacteria can affect the functioning of the immune system, causing the release of inflammatory substances that then act on certain nerve cells triggering the headache and other symptoms of migraines.
«Besides affecting tumor cells» directly, phytates «can act on [our] immune functions» by augmenting natural killer cell activity, the cells in our body that hunt down and dispose of cancer cells, as well as neutrophils, which help form our «first line of defense.»
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