Sentences with phrase «attacks by the immune system»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As Dr. Fasano explains in the YouTube mentioned above, «Cross Talk Between Gut & Brain — A Fasano, MD,» and in his presentation for the Autoimmune Summit, hosted by Dr. Amy Myers, MD, that aired a few weeks ago, «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 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.

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

Tecentriq belongs to a class of drugs called PD - 1 inhibitors, which help the immune system to fight cancer by blocking a mechanism that tumors use to evade attack.

Caused by a virus called HIV it has the capacity to attack and destroy the human immune system, leaving the individual vulnerable to the infections that eventually cause death.

This is the group of genes which act as the immune system markers on cells, protecting them from being attacked by the system's anti-bodies.

The gluten in grain is not recognized by the immune system, so it attacks the intestines and can cause severe damage.

This means that in those with the condition the immune system is mistakenly triggered by a substance to produce antibodies and to attack parts of their own body.

It's believed to play a role in the prevention of cancer and disorders that are caused by the body's own immune system attacking itself.

* CD4 cells are a component of the immune system attacked by HIV.

The predators had enough time to attack the infection before being targeted by the immune system themselves, creating an ideal treatment window.

In the present study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general.

Flu vaccines work by introducing a killed version of circulating virus strains, which trains the body's immune system to recognize and attack similar invaders in the future.

Previously, Derek Danahy of the University of Iowa and colleagues showed that sepsis disrupts the immune system by reducing the amount and function of memory T cells that circulate throughout the body, recognizing and attacking specific bacteria, viruses, or cancer cells.

Vaccines work by priming the immune system to recognize the target pathogen and attack it when detected.

The work was on the role of interleukin - 1 in the pathology of graft - versus - host disease (GVHD), the mechanism by which the new immune system, which a patient receives as a bone marrow transplant, attacks the patient's body following the transplantation.

That hyper - response, Miller theorizes, is not unlike what's seen in autoimmune diseases, where the inflammation provoked by an immune system attack proves far more damaging than any pathogen itself.

Pembrolizumab, which is marketed under the brand name Keytruda, works by turning off the immune system's brakes, allowing its T cells to recognize and attack cancer cells.

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

Blood from people affected by the 2014 Zika outbreak in French Polynesia provides the first evidence that the virus can make the immune system attack nerve cells

There was another intriguing connection: Acinetobacter are molecular mimics of proteins found in myelin, the nerve cell coating that the immune system attacks in MS.. That suggests the bacteria might trigger immune attacks that hit myelin, too, as when soldiers who inadvertently resemble the enemy get hit by friendly fire.

Researchers at Penn State have combined the two approaches by taking biodegradable polymer nanoparticles encapsulated with cancer - fighting drugs and incorporating them into immune cells to create a smart, targeted system to attack cancers of specific types.

One gene, she said, would shield its organs from attack by the human immune system; another would revamp its coagulation system to reduce the risk of clots.

Transplanted organs rarely get a hero's welcome in their new home — in fact, they are often attacked viciously by the host's immune system.

According to Dr. Cripe, the study suggests that some patients could respond to therapy even if their tumors aren't very infectable by the virus, provided their immune systems were stimulated by the viral therapy to attack the tumor cells.

The known FPRs include two immune system receptors that detect chemicals given off by pathogens in the blood, helping immune cells track down and attack foreign bodies.

Rather than waiting for an infected person's immune system to produce noticeable amounts of antibodies, the team chose to home in on the bacteria itself — specifically, proteins the bug sheds when attacked by the body's defenses.