Sentences with phrase «attacking body tissue»

This eventually makes the immune system more likely to start attacking the body tissue it was designed to protect, causing an autoimmune condition such as Hashimoto's.

Because the majority of the immune system is in the gut, intestinal inflammation that's worsened by certain foods results in continual immune system stimulation that eventually causes the immune system to go rogue and begin attacking body tissue.

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.

Identifying and addressing autoimmune diseases, situations where the body's immune system attacks body tissue, creating chronic inflammation.

Rheumatoid arthritis Rheumatoid arthritis occurs when the body's own immune system starts to attack body tissues.

Not exact matches

This is where the immune system — the body's defence against infection — mistakenly attacks healthy tissue.

The presence of the S100B protein triggers the release by the body of antibodies which can then leak back into the brain through the damaged blood - brain barrier, where they are thought to attack brain tissue.

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.

Cancer cells travel around the body and begin to attack healthy tissue in a process called metastasis.

While they're essential for helping the body fend off attacks, if something goes awry, B - cells can generate antibodies that attack healthy tissues.

«If we learn how to control dendritic cells, we could strengthen our immune response to infection when needed, or weaken the action of certain immune cells that attack the body's own tissues in autoimmune disease.»

These cells play a key role in autoimmune disease — in which the immune system mistakenly identifies the body's own tissues as foreign and attack them.

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.

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune condition in which the immune system attacks the joints, causing inflammation, pain, and eventually destruction of the tissues that make up this essential body part.

In septic shock, so much interleukin - 1 is produced that the body's defence mechanisms react and start attacking its own tissue and organs.

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.

In autoimmune disorders, the immune system goes haywire and attacks the body's own tissues.

But inappropriate activation of interferon signaling can cause the immune system to attack healthy tissues in the body, leading to a variety of autoimmune diseases.

MS is just one of many debilitating diseases caused by auto - immune reactions, where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues.

The immune system does not normally attack «self» proteins, so by producing protein fragments, or peptides, that imitate the structure of those in the body's own tissues, viruses and bacteria may avoid destruction.

Autoimmune diseases arise when the immune system mistakenly decides that one of the body's own tissues is foreign and begins to attack it.

The immature immune system produces cells that would attack every tissue in the body.

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.

But the explanation also posed a puzzle: Those random gene rearrangements also produce T cells that could attack the body's own tissues.

The first big advance occurred in the early 1990s, when epidemiological studies revealed that 90 to 95 percent of individuals with the disorder carry a genetic marker associated with autoimmune disease — self - inflicted damage that occurs when the body mistakes its own tissues for a foreign invader and attacks them.

The immune system's attack on the body's own tissue leads to chronic, painful inflammation in the affected joints.

Following a tissue graft transplant — such as that of the face, hand, arm or leg — it is standard for doctors to immediately give transplant recipients immunosuppressant drugs to prevent their body's immune system from rejecting and attacking the new body part.

They say this delayed response tallies with the idea that CFS is caused by autoantibodies — antibodies, made by B cells, that mistakenly attack the body's own tissues.

The team say their findings could also shed light on how inflammation occurs in certain types of autoinflammatory diseases, where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues.

Previously, scientists believed that they did not have the capacity to remember and specifically attack the body's own tissues.

The immune system protects us from scores of invaders, but it can also turn against us when white blood cells called autoimmune T cells attack the body's own tissue.

Scientists have made an important breakthrough in the fight against debilitating autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis by revealing how to stop cells attacking healthy body tissue.

What is clearly evident in the Swedish health care registers is the fact that those who lack a thymus have an increased incidence of autoimmune diseases in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissue; Type 1 diabetes; thyroid disease; rheumatic disease; and hypersensitivity to gluten.

An experimental pharmaceutical might one day circumvent the body's cold - defense mechanisms to protect tissue following stroke, heart attack and problems at birth

It could be that the immune response provoked by T. cruzi is so severe that the body is in danger of attacking its own tissues.

This mechanism protects the tissue during the acute phase of the disease, and restores the body after the heart attack.

Believing the tissues to be «foreign,» the body's natural response is to attack and can occur within days to months after transplant.

That prevents their bodies from attacking — also known as rejecting — tissues from another animal.

This is when the body's own immune system goes haywire and begins producing antibodies that attack healthy tissue, mistaking it for a foreign invader.

Auto - immune diseases are caused by an abnormal immune response which causes the immune system to attack and destroy healthy tissues in a person's own body.

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system does not recognize its own tissue and starts attacking it.

Autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes result when the body's immune system mistakenly attacks its own tissue.

An important area of research focus for NIAID is the immune system, the complex network of cells, tissues, and organs that work together to defend the body against attacks by foreign invaders such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi.

Studies like this are allowing us to untangle environmental and genetic factors that may cause the body's immune system to attack its own tissues,» said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. «A better understanding of the complex causes of autoimmunity promises to lead to better treatment and prevention options.»

In patients with SLE, the immune system forms autoantibodies that attack the body's own cells, causing inflammation and tissue damage.

Under normal conditions, so - called checkpoint inhibitor molecules rein in the immune system to ensure that it does not attack the body's own cells, tissues and organs.

LA JOLLA, CA ¬ — Researchers have found the first direct evidence that autoimmunity — in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissues — plays a role in Parkinson's disease, the neurodegenerative movement disorder.

One study found that exposure to chronic stress actually changes the activity of the genes of immune cells — making them more likely to attack the body's own tissue and trigger an autoimmune response.

When the immune system is overactive and starts attacking the body's own tissues, it leads to autoimmune disease.

In the case of autoimmune disease, components of the inflammatory response that are meant to attack and destroy invaders turn on the body's own tissues and cells.