A protein
produced by the immune system plays a critical role in the development of the disease and represents a novel potential target for treatment, new research suggests.
Both groups designed artificial versions of antibodies, the Y - shaped molecules
made by the immune system to target pathogens.
These would act as a substitute for the insulin - producing cells that are destroyed
by the immune systems of people with type 1 diabetes.
These unwanted substances are seen
by the immune system as foreign (because they aren't normally present in blood).
But it often involves a genetic weakness being
triggered by an immune system response to toxins; food proteins like gluten and casein; or chronic bacterial, yeast, or parasite infections.
These include genome instability / mutation, which they discussed previously, and tumor - promoting inflammation,
mediated by immune system cells that are recruited to the site of a developing tumor.
Gluten intolerance is primarily an allergic
reaction by the immune system to the presence of gluten in the gut, or in some cases, to the presence of gluten in the bloodstream.
As this regulation mechanism mediated
by the immune system also plays an important role in other diseases such as leukemia, these findings could lead to novel therapeutic approaches.
The extract was tested on human cells, and the generation of reactive oxygen species (free radicals)
by immune system actors was significantly suppressed.