Sentences with phrase «at exposure to toxins»

Like clues to a crime, specific molecules in the body can hint at exposure to toxins, infectious agents or even trauma, and so help doctors determine whether and how to treat a patient.

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Children's developing bodies are especially vulnerable to toxins, and they may be at risk for higher exposure.

In one of the most recent studies to document the extraordinary exposure and accumulation of pollutants and toxins in children today, the umbilical cord blood of babies from around America was tested for toxins at the time of their births.

This legislation would guarantee that every American at risk of illness from exposure to Ground Zero toxins has the right to the medical monitoring and treatment they deserve.

A new study presented February 7 at the American Society for Microbiology's Biothreats meeting reveals a ricin antidote that, in mice, works even days after exposure to the toxin.

On the drinking - water front, researchers from IBM, Central Glass, Ltd., of Japan, the King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia, and the University of Texas at Austin are developing a new type of membrane that is resistant to damage by chlorine (the chemical most often used prevent bacterial growth in water supplies) and designed to filter out salts and harmful toxins in water such as arsenic (long - term exposure of which has been linked to cancer and other ailments) potentially creating new sources of drinking water.

At this point, Haney and graduate students are trying to understand under what conditions the toxins might be coming out of the lake and whether the airborne particles are an important route of exposure.

«If confirmed in humans, our study could greatly impact how people view exposure to environmental tobacco toxins,» said Manuela Martins - Green, a professor of cell biology and neuroscience at UC Riverside and the lead author of the study.

«We suspect that lengthy exposure to a lower dose of the toxin produced significant liver damage without noticeable symptoms,» said author Dafna Gordon, MD, gastroenterology fellow at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

«This research shows that exposure to environmental toxins may be depressing the function of our circadian clock, the disruption of which is linked to increased rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and depression,» said Jennifer Hurley, an assistant professor of biological sciences, a member of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and senior author on this research.

Those definitely are stressful experiences, but if we don't become aware of stresses that affect our health daily — from lack of sleep, to excess sugar and carbohydrates, to exposure to gluten, toxins and GMOs — then our health is greatly at risk.

It turns out that the more microbial exposure we have at a young age — and the more diverse our microbiome — the healthier we are long - term, because all those microbes we encounter in our early years train and challenge our immune system to respond appropriately, whether that means taking action against toxins and harmful microbes or laying low when confronted with harmless allergens.

Dr. Baird partners with patients, looking closely at their lifestyle, diet, exposure to toxins across their lifetimes, and their responses to stress.

We provide healing and support at every stage of your growing family, whether you are struggling to conceive, concerned about immunizations or just want to raise your family with minimal exposure to prescription drugs and other toxins.

We've got a load of toxins being produced in our modern civilized world that have led to lots of conveniences but at the same time has led to lots of opportunities for exposure.

We looked at some food components, and toxins, toxic exposure components to how weight loss tends to accumulate.

At Parsley we like to figure out smart ways to minimize your exposure to potential toxins that might be interfering with your hormones and your natural repair processes.

There's substantial evidence suggesting that «exposure to pesticides may increase Parkinson's disease risk,» and autopsies found higher levels of pollutants and pesticides in the brains of Parkinson's disease patients, and some of these toxins are present at low levels in dairy products.

Your liver is capable of breaking down toxins and excreting them from your body, but it is the constant level of toxic exposure on a day to day basis that overwhelms your liver's ability to perform at its peak.

An alarming number of household products contain toxins that alone are considered at «safe» levels, but when all together in one house can add up to a lot daily of exposure.

Diseases such as lung cancer, if contracted by exposure to toxins at work as a result of normal working conditions.