Sentences with phrase «attack foreign substances»

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

Should any of these nasties make their way through the gut barrier, our gut associated immune system is triggered and attacks any foreign substance it does not recognize.

This is kind of like an allergic reaction, except that instead of attacking a foreign substance, your body starts attacking itself.

Celiac disease, spelled Coeliac outside of North America, is an autoimmune disorder, which means the body attacks itself, rather than attacking a foreign substance as in an allergy.

Not exact matches

Also, Russian officials claim that while the Russian chemical weapons program and everything connected to it had been verifiably destroyed under foreign supervision, other countries like the UK, Slovakia, Sweden and the Czech Republic have carried out «intense research» on nerve agents like «Novichok» until today and are likely to possess samples of these substances (Which would be of interest if «Novichok» was indeed the poison used in the attack).

By the way, both those comments and my subsequent article of May 10 were not a «single purpose project» designed to attack anyone, but the substance of both interventions was to focus on government's Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), highlight lessons Nigeria could learn from failed or sub-optimal implementation of previous economic blueprints, and discuss constraints and / or impediments which must be removed for the plan to succeed, especially in relation to private capital and foreign direct investment.

Typically, when the body senses a foreign substance such as a virus or a bacterium, it sends immune cells to attack the invader while also bolstering the immune system as a whole.

In the hunt for genetic and environmental factors responsible for allergies, a prime suspect has been interleukin - 4 (IL - 4); this immune system protein tells white blood cells to make IgE antibodies, which recognize foreign substances and set off an immune attack.

Macrophages are types of white blood cells that attack foreign micro-organisms and remove harmful substances within the body.

This paper showcased research results from the new DNA - based Zika vaccine that is based on synthetic DNA and gives instructions to the body's immune system to produce antibodies to attack Zika antigens (i.e. bacteria, viruses, and other foreign substances that trigger immune responses from the body.)

He is particularly interested in «memory» T cells, the immune system components that can recognize a foreign substance, such as HIV, that they have seen before and attack when they see it again.

The job of the immune system is to identify «foreign» substances in the body and attack them.

They do this by initiating a temporary inflammatory response to attack «invaders,» consuming the foreign substance, and then returning to their normal resting state when the danger has been removed.

The immune system is responsible for protecting the body from various foreign viruses and bacteria, but an asthmatics» immune system perceives certain substances and allergens as big threats and activates an exaggerated response, thus triggering an asthma attack.

Antibodies themselves are highly specific proteins which are utilised by the immune system to locate and attack foreign objects to fight off the molecules, as they are perceived as «antigens», and antigens are substances which are capable of triggering the production of antibodies.

The immune system sends out an increasing amount of antibodies to fight these foreign substances and in doing that toxic chemicals are produced which attack the body tissues causing allergic reactions and pain and inflammation throughout the body.

Your immune system marks these foreign substances as threats and therefore attacks them.

In other words, your body's immune system can mistakenly target and attack joint cartilage as a foreign, unwanted substance, and thereby undermine the structural integrity of your joints.

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

Due to a weak immune mechanism, your body at times is unable to resist the attack of foreign substances like the bacteria, parasites and viruses.

Allergic symptoms occur when the body identifies a foreign substance as harmful and attacks the substance.

Proteins may be combined or changed into substances recognized by the immune system as foreign invaders to be attacked.