Sentences with phrase «attack other body»

They can aggressively attack other body areas, such as the GI tract and bone marrow.

Not exact matches

Scientists have identified as many as 80 others, which range from type 1 diabetes, which develops when the body attacks its insulin - producing cells, to multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, and rheumatoid arthritis.

Claiming immunity to bullets and other supernatural abilities, the Boxers attacked Beijing months later, illuminating their warpath with the kerosene - soaked, burning bodies of captured Chinese Christians.

Probiotics will repopulate the gut and strengthen immunity and fight the bad guys so your child is less susceptible to sickness and other pathogens that attack our bodies.

Unlike other autoimmune diseases, however, doctors know the trigger for coeliac disease: gluten, which provokes an immune response that causes the body to attack itself.

Firing a house to attack an enemy available inside will not help some body who want to live in that house again as far as other alternatives are there to catch that enemy with a minimum coast.

We are so much more fluid, and dangerous on the break with a speedy CF, the defence to attack motion tends to that extra move, that extra pass with Giroud, which is enough time to slow down our play, allow the other team to get bodies back.

For instance, a bully may feel insecure about his own developing body or sexuality and will attack others before they have a chance to attack him.

Duran has lupus, an autoimmune disease where the body attacks its own tissue and Interlicchio donated her kidney to her just months after meeting each other on Tinder.

But while the wife of the President has allayed the fears of Nigerians on the health of her husband, the umbrella body of the North, the Arewa Consultative Forum, attacked the former acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, and others for warning Buhari's handlers to stop exploiting the President's ailing health for selfish reasons.

Hydrogen sulfide, a lethal gas best known for smelling like rotten eggs, turns out to play key roles in the body — a finding that could lead to new treatments for heart attack victims and others

Side effects of the treatment included skin rashes, thyroid problems and diarrhea as the therapy caused the immune system to attack other parts of the body.

Normally, the immune system protects the body by attacking foreign invaders such as viruses, bacteria and other pathogens.

Others are finding ways to boost the body's own immune system to attack cancer cells.

Such analyses have tied Alzheimer's risk to several genes involved in innate immunity — the body's immediate defenses that indiscriminately attack pathogens and other foreign molecules and cells.

PANS is thought to be an inflammatory condition that results when an infection or some other invasive trigger spurs the body to turn on itself and attack structures in the brain.

T cells, along with B cells and others, comprise the adaptive arm of the immune system, the body's second line of defense which quickly attacks and «remembers» specific pathogens.

Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body; in other words, the body attacks its own cells.

Tuberculosis (TB) tricks the immune system into attacking the body's lung tissue so the bacteria are allowed to spread to other people, new research from the University of Southampton suggests.

T cells help protect the body from parasites by traveling to the site of infection and recruiting other immune cells to mount an attack.

Hepatitis researchers have long thought that immune cells sent by the body to attack virus - infected cells in the liver cause the acute liver injury associated with hepatitis A virus (HAV) and other hepatitis viruses.

Other vaccines in trials target the blood - cell stage, and contain a parasite protein called AMA - 1, meant to prime the body's immune system to attack it.

The treatment manipulates our natural defenses to fight off the tumor in the same way it has been trained to attack other foreign invaders in our body.»

Unlike most other cells in the human body, heart cells do not have the ability to self - repair or regenerate effectively, making heart attack and heart failure severe and debilitating.

Adoptive T cell therapy, on the other hand, enlists the body's T cells to attack tumors.

One possible solution to quickly measure a population's exposure to radiation in the event of a nuclear disaster or some other large - scale leak of radioactive material — such as a so - called «dirty bomb» attack — would be to scan the body in places where that material is most readily absorbed.

Researchers are studying how NK cells recognize cancer cells as abnormal and how other cells, known as regulatory T cells, can command NK cells to hold their fire, in order to prevent them from attacking the body's own tissues.

Yet the success of both depends on doctors being able to manipulate the body's immune system, to prevent organ rejection in one case and the overzealous immune responses which appear to cause asthma attacks in the other.

Antibodies defend the body against bacterial, viral, and other invaders but sometimes the body makes antibodies that attack healthy cells.

If other cells are used, they can attack the patient's body.

«When women learn that their bodies are more capable than our culture has given them credit for and learn the tactics that can help them get out of a dangerous situation, they not only stand a good chance of thwarting the attack, but they send a message to others that women are not objects for men's abuse.»

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.)

It occurs when the donor T cells (the graft) don't recognize other cells in the recipient's body (the host) and attacks them as if they are foreign bodies.

The microglia then «summon» peripheral immune cells from other parts of the body, and these cells proceed to attack the protective myelin sheaths that surround the axons — or nerve fibers — in the brain.

So it was with high hopes that researchers transfused stem cells into patients suffering from heart failure — people whose hearts, weakened by heart attacks or other conditions, no longer pumped enough blood through their bodies.

When the body isn't constantly fighting off attacks of stress, it can work to repair other essential processes like the immune system.

It attacks the joints and other body parts leading to a slew of symptoms including achy or locked joints, numb hands, foot and eye troubles, and much more.

This mind - body therapy, introduced in the 1960s, helps you tune in to body signals (heart rate, blood pressure, muscle tension, skin temperature), and then teaches you to control the ones that may contribute to insomnia (or panic attacks, migraines, and other problems).

White blood cells that fight infection are removed from the patient, modified so they target the tumor specifically, and are re-introduced into the body where they encourage other cells also to attack the malignant cells.

But the reaction isn't only local — it can also create a cascading inflammatory response that «attacks other parts of the body, like joints, skin, and nerves, to create celiac symptoms around the body,» says Dr. Leffler.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease in which the body's immune system attacks myelin, the protective sheath around nerve cells that helps send messages to the brain and other parts of the body.

Once the immune system has made the mistake of attacking one part of the body, it is more likely to attack others including reproductive tissue and even the implanted embryo.

High blood pressure, or hypertension, usually has no symptoms, but can seriously damage the body — raising the risk of heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, and other problems.

The chronically stressed mice had decreased immune function and experienced tumor development significantly earlier than the non-stressed mice.16 Other mouse studies of ovarian cancer showed that chronic stress resulted in increased cancer growth as well as increased angiogenesis, the process with which cancer forms new blood vessels to feed itself nutrients for growth and metastases.17 Chronic stress has also been shown to decrease our body's ability to mount an attack against foreign invaders, including viruses.18 As we know that several viruses can cause cancer (HPV and cervical cancer, and EBV and nasopharyngeal cancer), we can extrapolate that any decrease in immune function could increase cancer risk.

On the other hand, if ACTH was low, but your cortisol is high, then that's a totally different story, and that's indicating that something is going on, likely with your immune system, that is, I wouldn't say attacking, but telling your adrenal glands to make cortisol when the rest of your body and your brain doesn't want it.

When the immune system identifies these errant proteins as invaders, it does what it does in response to any other invading pathogen: mount an attack and fortify the body's defenses by releasing histamine (which tries to get rid of the «pathogen» by inducing diarrhea, sneezing, runny nose, watery eyes, and all the other symptoms you might get from an allergic or intolerance reaction).

In the body, biofilms cause chronic inflammation, heart attacks, strokes, lung disease and other illnesses.

Supporting the wrong side of the immune system can result in further destruction of the body's tissue that might be under the attack and lead to development of other associated autoimmune diseases.

In that case - or the countless other stressful situations we face daily, the inflammation actually hinders us by wasting our energy and resources and telling our bodies that we are in a constant state of being under attack.

In other cases, your thyroid comes under attack by your body's own immune system.