Sentences with phrase «body as an invader»

This means that gluten is perceived by the body as an invader and the gluten antibodies attack the gluten itself trying to destroy it.

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This undigested gluten forms deposits on the intestinal walls, which the body recognizes as a foreign substance and sends the immune system into the area to «kill» this «foreign» invader.

It seems that the body initially perceives chile as an invader, and in defense, secretes mucus in the digestive and respiratory tracts to flush it out.

All of this is analogous to allergies, and the varying degrees of individual sensitivity to what the body perceives as «alien invaders» — pollen, dust, the oil from poison ivy plants, etc..

When large particles of food enter the body through the intestines, the immune system sees them as invaders and attacks.

«The body identifies the allergen as an invader and to protect itself, creates antibodies called immunoglobulin E, or IgE,» said Dr. Anita Gewurz, director of the Allergy / Immunology Training Program of Rush Medical College and Hospital, and an allergist at Rush - Presbyterian - St.

But in future pregnancies, her body will treat the baby as a foreign invader and reject the baby.

Most cases of type 1 diabetes occur when the body mistakenly sees the islet cells as a foreign invader and wrecks the thing.

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.

When the T cells of your immune system are forced to deal over time with cancer or a chronic infection such as HIV or hepatitis C, they can develop «T cell exhaustion,» becoming less effective and losing their ability to attack and destroy the invaders of the body.

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

After the body has defeated a viral or bacterial invasion, the immune system usually starts losing its memory of the attacker as the last invaders fade away.

Doctors diagnosed the problem as alopecia areata, a genetically determined autoimmune disease in which the body's T cells identify hair - follicle cells as foreign invaders and try to destroy them.

Oxidation is also a primary means by which the body kills invaders, such as viruses and bacteria, or removes aging or sick cells.

The treatment, called CAR - T immunotherapy, uses genetically engineered T cells, immune system fighters usually tasked with identifying invaders in the body, such as bacteria, viruses or foreign cells.

This is a faint echo of what happens inside the body of someone developing diabetes: Their T cells are activated against cells in the pancreas much as they would be against a foreign invader, like a virus.

The inference is that the increased presence of E. coli intensified the myeloperoxidase activity in the bowel as the body sought to fight off the invader.

Normally, when the body detects an outside invader such as a virus, a signalling system known as the PKA pathway responds by turning on 99 genes that then activate T - cells to destroy the invader.

The innate immune system triggers the body's «emergency response» to invaders such as infections.

The immune system maintains a rich abundance of «natural killer» cells to confront microbial invaders, but as the body gains the upper hand in various infections it sometimes starts to produce even more of the cells.

These cells are on high alert for pathogens such as viruses, bacteria and even tumor cells, signaling the body's T - cell immune fighters into action when sensing harmful invaders.

The body recognizes the peptides as foreign invaders and, as a result, attacks the leukemia cells.

It found that patients who received a liver and kidney at the same time, or a liver alone, had fewer of the cells that leap into action to defend the body from an invader — known as killer cells or T cells — , compared with people who had a kidney transplant alone.

Defects in this gene mean it can no longer fulfil its role as a regulator that helps purge the body of autoreactive immune cells termed T cells that can react against the body's own proteins, mistaking them for a foreign invader.

T cells, like the one shown here, help the immune system kill invaders to the body, such as bacteria.

Also, there is a risk that the body will see them as an alien invader, triggering an immune response to destroy them.

The body is designed to fight off foreign invaders, such as germs.

This acts as a camouflage, tricking the body's immune system so the nanoparticles aren't identified as invaders and destroyed before they reach the site of the clot.

Our immune system is designed to recognise the cells that make up our bodies and repel any foreign invaders such as viruses.

To make this possible, the body had to develop mechanisms by which it «tolerates» the presence of potentially helpful bacteria, not attacking them as foreign invaders.

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.

That's because cooking — including microwaving or even some processing, like canning — breaks down the pollen - mimicking protein, Dr. Elliott explains, so your body no longer registers it as a foreign invader.

These drugs work by blocking the effects of histamine, a chemical your body produces to attack invaders like pollen — launching such immune reactions as watery eyes and sneezes.

Your body starts to look at food as a foreign invader and triggers an immune response to a harmless food protein.

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 risas 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 risas 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 risAs 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.

Tactic number 2 is to increase mucous secretions in an attempt to trap invaders and move them out of the body in a phase known as rhinorrhea.

When particles pass through the intestinal wall and enter the bloodstream, the body may see that food as an invader and cause inflammation to kill the invader.

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).

It is the first line of defense against foreign invaders (such as toxins) in our bodies.

Its job is to help the body identify and fight foreign invaders such as environmental toxins, bacteria, and viruses.

The team, led by center director Dr. Alessio Fasano, hypothesizes that a person with gluten sensitivity experiences a direct reaction to gluten — i.e., your body views the protein as an invader and fights it with inflammation both inside and outside your digestive tract.

Yet there's still debate over whether people with celiac disease or gluten intolerance can drink coffee; some believe that coffee cross-reacts with gluten, meaning that it has proteins that the body treats as invaders the same way it does gluten.

Antibodies are the body's way of «sounding the alarm» to kick the immune system into gear and rev up inflammation (and pain) to fight a perceived threat of an invader, such as a virus.

Your skin acts as a physical barrier to foreign invaders, making it harder for them to gain access to your body.

As the immune system fights the infection, it may begin to confuse the body's own proteins with proteins made by foreign invaders such as bacteria and viruseAs the immune system fights the infection, it may begin to confuse the body's own proteins with proteins made by foreign invaders such as bacteria and viruseas bacteria and viruses.

Just to clarify, acute (short - term) inflammation is beneficial as it helps the body fight foreign invaders and repair damaged cells.

These are all inflammatory reactions, signs that the body is trying to rid itself of what it perceives as «toxic invader.»

sIgA acts as the first line of defense against foreign invaders in the gut by attaching and neutralizing proteins that are unrecognized by the body.

When it does, your body recognizes this macro molecule as an invader and attacks.

In the case of leaky gut, this means that undigested food particles, particularly proteins, pass through the intestinal barrier and into the bloodstream, resulting in an immune response in the blood and an enormous amount of immune stress as your body tries to fight off these foreign invaders that aren't supposed to be in your bloodstream (8).