Sentences with phrase «by pathogens»

Another possible explanation could be that your cat has an inflammation of the throat, which can be caused by pathogens such as bacteria or viruses.

Nor is it desirable, as this would eliminate a protective layer against systemic infection by pathogens that enter the body through the gut.

These include incredibly common infections, as well as those caused by pathogens you might have heard of but probably don't associate with sexual transmission.

These crucial gut organisms help us digest food, produce chemicals and substances within the body, control infections by pathogens, regulate the immune system, and even control emotions.

When the body is attacked by pathogens or suffers an injury or irritation it sends substances to fight the attackers or repair the damage.

Their findings suggest that auxin produced by the pathogen promotes the pathogen's ability to extend its reach in plant tissue, thus increasing the severity of the disease symptoms on infected plants.

Abstract: Plastic waste can promote microbial colonization by pathogens implicated in outbreaks of disease in the ocean.

Although derived from a natural source, carrageenan appears to be particularly destructive to the digestive system, triggering an immune response similar to that your body has when invaded by pathogens like Salmonella.

They also plan to study antibacterial activity in the gut presumably using coconut oil and how cells lining the digestive tract can become colonized by pathogens.

This mechanism is also used by pathogens to colonize and attack their host 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.

Although derived from a natural source, it appears to be particularly destructive to the digestive system, triggering an immune response similar to that your body has when invaded by pathogens like Salmonella.

More commonly, researchers have blamed the innate immune system — triggered by the pathogens once they enter the brain — for Alzheimer's pathology.

«We were able to demonstrate that the changes induced by this pathogen are different from those caused by other pathogens, such as «Escherichia coli»,» researcher María José Gosalbes remarks.

The signaling process, ubiquitination, plays an essential role in numerous important cellular processes such as immunity, which is frequently hijacked by pathogens to enable the spread of infection within a host, said Zhao - Qing Luo, a Purdue University professor of biological sciences and member of the Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, who led the research.

Therefore, in a gut that is dominated by pathogens and candida (as in someone who has taken many rounds of antibiotics and other prescription drugs over the years and / or eats primarily high sugar processed foods), yogurt tends to have only a temporary impact in favor of the beneficial strains.

The inflammation response creates a hostile environment for the harmful intruders, and it cleans away tissues and cells already damaged by the pathogens, the immune system's attack, or from injury.

«We know that the immune system declines with age, and people can be affected by pathogens they were once immune to.

What's new in the Czech study, explains pathologist Carol Meteyer of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisc., is the confirmation of tissue damage characteristic of clinical white - nose sydrome: skin being digested by the pathogen as the fungi's fibrous segments enter a bat's wing and begin replacing its cells.

Some have been left severely disabled by a pathogen that attacks the nervous system, and more than 1,000 have died.

Ackerman, who trained as a protein engineer, is trying to make proteins that trigger fierce immune reactions by taking the antigens already expressed by pathogens and tweaking them.

The pathology of C. difficile infections is primarily triggered by two toxins released by the pathogen, which then damage the intestinal epithelium.

The approach of targeting a host response required by a pathogen to cause disease rather than targeting the microbial pathogen is gaining wide support in the medical community.»

The goal would not be to eliminate a disease like distemper from a given ecosystem, but to protect endangered species in places impacted by pathogens that have often been introduced from elsewhere, often by domestic animals.

Between 1990 and 1998 the populations of several frog species crashed due to chytridiomycosis infection (chytrid) caused by the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, but Mahony's surveys suggest that the frogs are re-establishing.

But about ten years ago, biologists pointed out that this strategy could go awry with disastrous consequences: if the immune system is no longer fooled by a pathogen's disguise, it could begin to attack both the mimicking pathogen and whichever of the body's tissues it is imitating.

But when Dr. Shelley Adamo of Dalhousie University found her cricket colony decimated by a pathogen, she was shocked that the dying insects didn't act sick.

How these protein networks are subverted by pathogens, has been investigated on a plant model by a research team.

Their research demonstrates eDNA could provide an early signal of where Bd die - offs may occur which would help conservationists take action to save amphibians afflicted by the pathogen.

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a serious global health problem accounting for 1.3 million worldwide deaths annually.

Based on their study, they hypothesize that «MVs secreted by the pathogens residing in lower genital tract may be responsible for cases with unexplained chorio - amnionitis.»

«Our data explain why the CD33rSiglec - encoding cluster of genes is undergoing rapid evolution via multiple mechanisms, driven by the need to maintain self - recognition by innate immune cells, even while escaping two distinct mechanisms of subversion by pathogens,» said Ajit Varki, M.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California in San Diego, CA.

That gene's protein recognizes a corresponding protein called PWT3 made by the pathogen.

And that's important, she says, because it is becoming increasingly evident that many diseases are caused (or at least exacerbated) not by pathogens per se, but by «dysbiosis,» an imbalance in the microbial community.

The intestinal microbiota, which is composed of diverse populations of commensal bacterial species, provides resistance against colonization and invasion by pathogens.

The Cytolysin is manufactured by pathogens such as bacteria and fungi and can wipe out entire harvests if chemical protection is not used.

Later, as larger lesions form in ash tissues, the vc system might define the «territory» defended by each pathogen individual.

Dr Ton added: «Plant immunity that is controlled by a single resistance gene, on which most conventional breeding programs are based, is comparably easy to overcome by a pathogen.

«Liverworts are showing great promise as a model plant system and this discovery that they can be colonised by pathogens of flowering plants makes them a valuable model plant to continue research into plant - microbe interactions.»

Systemic bacterial infections such as those caused by Salmonella are highly regulated and complex processes that include sophisticated offensive and defensive strategies by both pathogen and host that are orchestrated by virulence factors.

«Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease, and so the R&D Blueprint explicitly seeks to enable cross-cutting R&D preparedness that is also relevant for an unknown «Disease X» as far as possible,» WHO said in a statement.

Since the problem of damage or the invasion of cells by pathogens has existed nearly ab initio, maintenance and defense must have arisen early during evolution.

By identifying the critical genes and proteins that are targeted by both pathogens and disease - causing genetic mutations, he hopes to discover the vulnerable points in cells that can be targeted with drugs and potentially treat a multitude of diseases.

April Price, Ph.D., a CRI postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, is working to understand how Toll - like receptors (TLR), a type of receptor that recognizes molecules that are broadly shared by pathogens, contribute to colorectal cancer.

After analyzing biomarkers in the breath samples of 60 patients, the scientists found a link between bacterial pneumonia and the presence of certain volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by a pathogen called A. baumannii.

«Our next goal is to figure out why this is the case — whether it's a defense mechanism elicited by the pathogens themselves or an immunological loophole in the vaginal tissue.»