Sentences with phrase «by the immune system as»

These unwanted substances are seen by the immune system as foreign (because they aren't normally present in blood).

Many of the individual compounds that p.acnes is made from are easily recognised by your immune system as «enemy» molecules.

(11 - 12) The current theory is that this damaged cell material is then recognized by the immune system as foreign, leading to Hashimoto's autoimmune disease.

Proteins may be combined or changed into substances recognized by the immune system as foreign invaders to be attacked.

Not exact matches

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.

Each SB3 stick contains 13 billion live probiotic bacteria — probiotics are the «good» bacteria that act as the body's defense — they support the immune system by fighting the «bad» bacteria and also help to aid digestion too.

This process is helpful in revealing a troublesome ingredient but it's not perfect, as such diaries don't distinguish between intolerances (food reactions not caused by an immune system reaction) and true food allergies.

What if our immune systems have become compromised by water (and the ripple of its toxicity), yet making it present as issues with food or allergies or whatnot?

Inulin can also act as a sort of #probiotic by stimulating the growth of bifidobacterial in the intestines and boosting your immune system.

As a result, your immune system becomes weakened by the suffocation of your body's cells.

When you eat something that your body perceives as a threat, the immune system and brain respond by creating an inflammatory reaction.

That's because breast milk — custom - made nourishment specially formulated by Mother Nature — offers so many benefits: It boosts your baby's immune system, promotes brain development, and may reduce your child's risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) as well as diabetes, some types of cancer, obesity, high cholesterol, and asthma later in life.

Instead it «programs» your baby's immune system to go after certain proteins as prescribed by the vaccine - like a troop of soldiers going after an enemy that doesn't exist.

In adults, C. difficile infection is associated with diarrhea and unpleasant side effects, and while babies don't seem to be as affected by the bacteria, the presence of C. difficile could push out the Escherichia and Shigella that are so critical to developing a strong and healthy immune system.

He concluded that the acid had a very positive effect on humans, by strengthening our immune systems and serving as a healing aid.

As your baby grows older, her immune system will get much stronger and she can play with and even be licked by your pet without any consequences.

However, he can eat it raw soon (by 9 months) but you have to be careful to wash it thoroughly, as with all raw produce, because his little immune system is still immature.

The Omega 3 fatty acids found in oily fish — such as salmon, trout, halibut, and tuna — help boost our immune systems, by increasing the activity of phagocytes, which are white blood cells that combat harmful bacteria.

The D antigen on baby's blood can be recognized as a foreign entity by mom's immune system.

This means that the baby is no longer as susceptible to these bacterial infections and the immune system has been bolstered by the ability to consume whole foods.

Doing skin to skin contact immediately after your baby is born can help your baby be colonized by the same bacteria as you, which will help your baby's immune system.

By the time a mother with a normal immune system is infectious with a virus such as Cytomegalovirus (CMV), she has already donated copious amounts of antibodies (as the titers of antibodies within her blood increase drastically).

You can further help his immune system after birth by breastfeeding as your baby will acquire your antibodies giving this acquired immunity an added boost!

When a causative agent penetrates a physical barrier, such as the skin, and is absorbed into the blood system, the immune system activates all its defenses by struggling with pathological elements.

Another important key to a healthy immune system is our microbiome, the healthy bacteria living in our bodies, which is affected by our circadian rhythms as well.

A food allergy occurs when the body's immune system sees a certain food as harmful and reacts by causing one or more symptoms.

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.

And public health experts believe that as many as 500 million poor people in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America are being slowly poisoned by long - term cumulative exposure to aflatoxins, which can stunt a child's growth, suppress the immune system and lead to liver damage or cancer.

Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.

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.

When researchers injected fresh breast cancer cells in the side opposite the original tumor site, the disease didn't recur in any of the mice, as the cancer was rejected by the immune system's memory.

Now cancer researchers and immunologists at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet have discovered how cancer cells can infiltrate the lymphatic system by «disguising» themselves as immune cells (white blood cells).

That injection puts the «gas on» the immune system followed by a second injection of a drug being developed as a chemotherapy.

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

To survive in utero, the fetus must resist an onslaught by the mother's immune system that, most researchers agree, recognizes the father's share of the embryo as foreign and sometimes rejects it.

If so, moderation and appropriate rest periods may be the key to healthier exercise, as consecutive CrossFit - style workouts could impair the immune system by affecting inflammatory proteins.

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.

What they discovered was that an inflammatory factor known as TGF - beta (transforming growth factor - beta) can give cancer cells properties of immune cells by supplying the surface of the cancer cell with a receptor that normally only exists on the white blood cells that travel through the lymphatic system.

Although such harvested cells could be cultured as say, liver cells for treating hepatitis or dopamine - producing cells for Parkinson's, the resulting transplants would likely be rejected by patients» immune systems.

Mast cells, also known as «allergy cells,» are cells of the immune system which become activated by environmental allergens.

And it results as a complication of catching strep, which evades the human immune system by adapting its outer surface to resemble human biomolecules, a phenomenon called molecular mimicry.

A look back at samples from the Brazilians, collected six months before Zika arrived by a team led by Albert Ko of Yale University, revealed evidence of prior dengue 1 infections in some — and a potential explanation as to why certain people's immune systems fared better against Zika.

By the early 1990s, Swedo and the NIMH team were treating the Sydenham group and pioneering some of the same types of treatments used for patients like Paul Michael today: steroids such as prednisone to stanch the tide of immune molecules; plasmapheresis, a technique to filter the blood, cleanse it of autoantibodies, and return it intact to the patient; and intravenous delivery of a new, healthy immune system with IVIG.

Type 1 diabetes, formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is characterized by the immune system's destruction of the beta cells in the pancreas.

Most notably, immune - mediated diseases are expected to be significantly influenced by such reagents as epigenetic changes have been widely noted to influence the immune system.

With additional genome tinkering to avoid rejection by the immune system, they could be used clinically as a universal stem cell therapy.

Substances known as cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) are produced by nearly all living creatures and are an essential part of the innate immune system.

Epigenetic therapies are thought to work in two ways to fix these errors in cancer cells — by correcting the «position» of the gene switches and by making the cell appear as though it's infected by a virus, triggering the immune system.

This is important as one of the reasons tumour cells are so pernicious is that they are able to hide from the body's immune system, by hijacking macrophages.

The «blood - brain barrier» is also at the centre of a potential puzzle raised by research such as today's research: how can the immune system have an effect in the brain when many inflammatory markers and antibodies can not penetrate this barrier?