Sentences with phrase «call it a functioning immune»

While the vets and researchers may call this an occult infection, I might be inclined to call it a functioning immune system.

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In a New Yorker report, Arianna Huffington, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, calls on companies to reassess their values: «This includes rejecting the cult of the top performer, which tolerates otherwise unacceptable behavior, and instead building a culture that functions as the company's immune system: surfacing cases of abuse and identifying toxic elements as fast as possible, and then quickly rejecting them.»

Fat cushions our organs and helps control growth, immune function, reproduction and metabolism; fat transports vitamins A, D, E, and K, the so - called fat - soluble vitamins, throughout our bloodstream; and it also boosts the body's ability to absorb potentially health - enhancing carotenoids, natural pigments found in plants.

Healthy bacteria (bifidobacteria and lactobacilli)-- called probiotics — in breast milk have a positive influence on digestive functions and immune support.

Rothenburg; microbiology doctoral students Chen Peng, China, and Sherry Haller, Topeka; and collaborators from the University of Florida, recently published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America about the function of an immune - regulating protein from myxoma virus, called M156.

Further study revealed that these so - called immune proteins are actually present on the surface of certain nerve cells, but that they functioned differently in the brain than they did in the rest of the body; rather than scouting for germs, they influenced signals sent between neurons.

The research is part of a growing field called ecoimmunology, which aims to push the study of immunology beyond lab animals like fruit flies and mice and understand how immune systems function in real - world settings outside the lab.

No one knows for sure just how the procedure, Gelsinger's liver function and his immune response are all connected, but Wilson now believes that the teen died from a rare phenomenon called antibody - dependent enhancement.

Yet until she proved otherwise, few scientists thought MHCI or other so - called «immune molecules» were even present in a normally functioning brain.

These chemicals, called cytokines, drive the inflammation in the brain, attracting more immune cells, and causing the debilitating disease marked by loss of neurological function.

Findings from a study in animals appear to demonstrate that temporarily blocking a type of protein, called type I interferon, can restore immune function and speed up viral suppression during treatment with anti-viral drugs for people with chronic infection of the virus that causes AIDS.

By manipulating the function of certain immune cells, called T cells, researchers could help restore the system's balance and create new treatments to target these diseases.

The celiac study followed 6,403 newborn children with either of two high - risk gene groups called HLA that are important for immune function — HLA - DR3 - DQ2 or HLA - DR4 - DQ8 — to see who would develop celiac disease or CDA.

Since a primary function of the dendritic cells is to present an antigen to T - cells, to activate the T - cells and begin the immune response, the researchers suspected that T - cell activation in the heart tissue, and perhaps heart - tissue injury caused by T - cells, might be central to the pathological heart enlargement that is called remodeling.

A trial of a gene treatment for children with severe combined immunodeficiency, who have no functioning immune system, was called off after some of the patients developed leukaemia.

These molecules function by shuttling broken - down proteins called peptides from inside the cell to the surface, where other immune cells inspect them to see whether they are invaders.

In the present work, the teams led by Michael Ewers (ISD) and EMBO Member Christian Haass (DZNE) focussed on the TREM2 protein, which functions in specialized brain immune cells called microglia that clear toxic material resulting from nerve cell injury.

Children with gene mutations that disrupt the functioning of an enzyme called A20 are more likely to have asthma and allergies, so Bart Lambrecht of Ghent University in Belgium and his team wondered whether A20 may be involved in helping endotoxins train our immune systems.

The EPA has been inundated with calls for the agency to deny approval of Enlist Duo, including warnings from a group of physicians and scientists who said 2,4 - D can be linked to health problems that include suppressed immune function and greater risk of Parkinson's disease.

Both of these compounds, which are called stilbenoids, worked in synergy with vitamin D and had a significant impact in raising the expression of the human cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide, or CAMP gene, that is involved in immune function.

They monitored their tumor development, the function of their immune systems, and the production of cell - signaling proteins called cytokines.

FcRn bears an intriguing structural resemblance to molecules called major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, which function in the vertebrate adaptive immune response by presenting antigenic peptides to T cells.

And the third major thing that I think we've discovered is that the immune cell of the eye, which is called the microglia; it serves a special function in the maintenance of the health of the retina.

Although investigators have not yet identified which cells carry Sema4a in tumors and boost regulatory T cell function, the scientists did report that immune cells called plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) provided more than half of the Sema4a in tumors in this study.

In addition, it contains compounds called alkylglycerols that can help protect you against cancer by boosting your immune system function.

There's an exciting field of research in health called the cytokine model of cognitive function, a scientific way of saying how inflammation and your body's immune response are linked to brain conditions.

The cumulative load, called the «body burden», is thought to lead to illness and has been linked to hormonal imbalance, impaired immune function, nutritional deficiency, and an inefficient metabolism.

The decline in immune function that goes along with aging is called immunosenescence.

Why you need it: Vitamin D, often called the Sunshine vitamin, is important for bone health and even supporting immune function.

We can get caught in what is called a cortisol cascade until we are burned while our immune function becomes depressed making us susceptable to colds and flu.

Modern food technology with plant breeding, separation, condensation of food ingredients, heating, freezing, drying, irradiation, microwaving, are effective tool to counteract optimal immune function, and suspected to be a leading cause of so called Western diseases.

Specifically, T α 1 has been shown to enhance the function of certain immune cells called T and dendritic cells.

Regularly consuming these foods then leads to micronutrient deficiencies, metabolic damage, poor gut function, poor immune function etc which is why I think Stephan is justified in calling food reward a «dominant» factor in obesity as it initiates the viscous cycle.

Fish, often called «brain food,» contain important amounts of the omega - 3 fatty acids EPA and DHA, which are important for proper fetal development, including neuronal, retinal and immune function.

Pets with food allergies must be placed on novel protein diets, also called elimination diets, to allow their immune systems to stop overreacting to allergens and give their GI tracts time to detoxify, heal and function normally again.

These may reveal a reduced number of lymphocytes (white blood cells that function in the immune system), a disease called «lymphopenia».