Sentences with phrase «attack by the immune system»

Studies have shown that oral bacteria, once launched into the bloodstream, seem able to survive attacks by the immune system.

If you stop the leakage triggering the overstimulated immune reaction, we think you can stop the progression of this self attack by the immune system.

In type 2 diabetes, the pancreas is not attacked by the immune system, but either produces less insulin than is needed, or the body is unable to use the insulin the pancreas does produce.

Dubbed «spikes,» these sugar and protein complexes are the only surface structures that stem from the HIV virus itself and can be attacked by the immune system via antibodies.

This form of interference with bacterial gene regulation is also of pharmaceutical interest as it is known that pathogenic bacteria can protect themselves against attack by the immune system and the effect of antibiotics by forming biofilms, for instance on the epithelium of the respiratory system.

Researchers need to identify cells — possibly adult stem cells from the patient — that can reconstruct lung tissue without provoking attack by the immune system, the problem that plagues current transplant recipients.

Unlike foreign intruders such as bacteria, tumor cells are the patient's own and hence are less viciously attacked by the immune system.

The discovery also hints that the protein might normally play a protective role in the body by «hiding» defective complexes of RNA and protein, called ribonucleoproteins, from attack by the immune system.

With MS, your myelin sheathing is mistakenly attacked by the immune system, breaking down this protective cover.

These immune cell surface proteins in themselves help the body by making our DNA less vulnerable to attack by our immune system which may have gone on the attack of foreign particles in our blood, such as dead cells, parasites, viruses, pollens and more.

In the early stages of Hashimoto's, the thyroid is under attack by the immune system.

To Address The Thyroid You MUST Understand Inflammation This self - attack by the immune system increases inflammation.

Some cats consume many different processed food proteins and colorings, which may be changed by their digestive systems into foreign material that gets attacked by the immune system.

Moreover, some dogs with autoimmune lymphocytic thyroiditis may have detectable autoantibodies prior to the development of hypothyroidism (meaning that a dog's thyroid gland may be attacked by the immune system yet not to the point of dysfunction and low hormone production).

Five to six tablespoons of pure coconut oil taken alone or added to a hot beverage or food each day of a viral infection will weaken the lipid coating of some viruses and make them susceptible to attack by the immune system.

But during pregnancy, the fetus is protected from the mother's immune system by the placenta, which has specialized cells — called trophoblasts — that can burrow into the mother's body without exciting an attack by the immune system.

A potential solution to this problem is to reprogram other cell types into functional beta - like cells, which can produce insulin but are distinct from beta cells and therefore are not recognized or attacked by the immune system.

With the characteristic that while passing through the bloodstream the drug is not detected nor attacked by the immune system, this due to their physical and chemical properties which make them compatible with the body.»

Macrophages should also destroy cancerous cells, but, because they arise from healthy cells, the former are protected by nearly all of the same mechanisms that keep the latter from being attacked by the immune system.

Estes, who works with virologist Jeffrey Lifson, has also developed a DNAscope to visualize this HIV DNA — called the provirus — which becomes integrated into human cells and can persist for decades without being attacked by the immune system or antiretroviral (ARV) drugs.

Tumors normally fend off any attacks by the immune system.

Cancer tricks the immune system by using these checkpoints to «turn off» the immune response and avoid being recognized or attacked by the immune system.

Two simple changes in its outer envelope protein could render the AIDS virus vulnerable to attack by the immune system, according to research from the Human Biology Division's Drs. Julie Overbaugh and Catherine Blish and undergraduate student Minh - An Nguyen.

This includes transplantation into parts of the body where the replacement cells are less likely to be attacked by the immune system or placement of the cells into protective capsules.

Renowned for our work in beta cell production and research, we are conducting studies to expand and boost insulin - producing cells and make them less susceptible to attack by the immune system.

Cancer cells have developed a number of ways to survive, including ways to escape detection and attack by our immune system, but their ability to respond to viral infections is actually quite limited.

According to German professor Rolf Issels, MD, PhD, of the University of Munich, hyperthermia produces» heat shock» proteins on the surface of the cancer cells, making them more prone to attack by the immune system.

This attack by our immune system causes chronic inflammation and may explain many conditions such as atrophic gastritis that destroys both the acid - producing cells and the IF - producing cells in older people who eat meat but do not abuse alcohol.

When the thyroid is attacked by the immune system, this results in thyroid cell breakdown.

And why is that an otherwise harmless substance is then treated as a foreign invader to be attacked by the immune system?

Your gastrointestinal tract can not properly process gluten and it gets both fermented and attacked by your immune system, resulting in damage to the intestinal wall and gut bacteria.

Dr Rolf Issels, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Munich, notes that the heat produced in an infrared sauna can create «heat shock» proteins on the surfaces of cancer cells, causing them to be more vulnerable to attack by the immune system.

Gluten ataxia, an autoimmune condition, involves an attack by your immune system on your brain and neurological system in response to consumption of gluten - containing foods — pretty scary stuff.

In our countries, 90 - 95 % of cases of hypothyroidism result from Hashimoto's, an autoimmune condition where the thyroid gland is being attacked by the immune system.

Studies have shown that oral bacteria, once launched into the bloodstream, seem able to fight off attacks by the immune system.