Sentences with phrase «cause of a variety of diseases»

Feline Leukemia Virus, also known as «FeLV,» is the cause of a variety of diseases.

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Lauric acid is converted in the body into a highly beneficial compound called monolaurin, an antiviral and antibacterial that destroys a wide variety of disease causing organisms.

But experienced over the longer term, these adaptations also cause an array of physiological problems: They tend to lead to a compromised immune system, metabolic shifts that contribute to weight gain, and, later in life, a variety of physical ailments, from asthma to heart disease.

Cough is a common symptom of a variety of diseases and can have a variety of causes.

In humans, prion diseases can cause a variety of rapidly progressive neurological symptoms, such as difficulty walking and speaking, and dementia.

This may be down to a variety of causes, such as genetic abnormalities, infectious disease, environmental agents or certain behaviors.

Epigenetic changes beyond a normal expression pattern can cause a variety of diseases.

These findings have unnerved some clinicians because patients with a variety of diseases are treated with high - dose glucocorticoids for long periods (even though the treatment is known to cause memory problems) and because the body itself secretes a ton of these hormones during neurological crises.

Chlorine effectively kills a large variety of microbial waterborne pathogens, including those that can cause typhoid fever, dysentery, cholera and Legionnaires» disease.

BIG BITES An aggressive biter, the Asian tiger mosquito can carry a variety of pathogens that cause debilitating diseases in humans and some domestic animals.

But inappropriate activation of interferon signaling can cause the immune system to attack healthy tissues in the body, leading to a variety of autoimmune diseases.

Proteobacteria include a wide variety of pathogens, such as E. coli, Salmonella, and Legionellales (which causes Legionnaires» disease.)

While doctors, nutritionists and researchers have known for a long time that saturated fats contribute to some of the leading causes of death in the United States, they haven't been able to determine how or why excess saturated fats, such as those released from lard, are toxic to cells and cause a wide variety of lipid - related diseases, while unsaturated fats, such as those from fish and olive oil, can be protective.

In reality, those diseases are probably caused by a wide variety of extremely rare mutations that vary from one person to the next, complicating efforts to understand and treat them at the genetic level.

The disease retards growth and causes bone defects in children and makes them susceptible to a variety of cancers.

The review reports that liver transplantation is the most effective treatment for many patients with end - stage liver disease and irreversible hepatic failure resulting from a variety of causes, including hepatocellular carcinoma.

When this vasculature — the blood - brain barrier (BBB)-- ruptures, blood proteins can enter into the brain and cause edema and neuronal damage in a variety of neurological diseases, such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, and spinal cord injury.

We report a variety of biallelic effects on organismal phenotype attributable to combinations of recessive Xpd alleles, including the following: (i) the ability of homozygous lethal Xpd alleles to ameliorate a variety of disease symptoms when their essential basal transcription function is supplied by a different disease - causing allele, (ii) differential developmental and tissue - specific functions of distinct Xpd allele products, and (iii) interallelic complementation, a phenomenon rarely reported at clinically relevant loci in mammals.

Our wet - lab research is focused on the study of Brucella, a facultative intracellular bacterium that causes brucellosis, one of the most common zoonotic diseases in the world in humans and a variety of animal species.

A variety of different mutations in the Immunoglobulin mu - binding protein 2 (Ighmbp2) gene have been identified to be the cause of SMARD, but the mechanism of how these mutations result in this disease are still unknown.

The human immune system is highly evolved to protect us from illness, yet it still falls prey to a wide variety of infectious diseases, among them the leading causes of death and disability around the world.

The microscope has been used to study a variety of neurodegenerative diseases, and in this study, they focus their attention on LRRK2 — the most common genetic cause of Parkinson's.

Sialic acid synthesis is tightly regulated; defects in this pathway cause a variety of disorders, including hereditary inclusion body myopathy (HIBM), sialuria, infantile sialic acid storage disease (ISSD), and Salla disease.

The recent Nature paper «High - throughput discovery of novel developmental phenotypes» describes the systematic high - throughput phenotyping screens used in the knock out mice and gives insight into a variety of gene function while a strong correlation was found between genes causing lethality in mice and genes causing diseases in humans, including cardiovascular defects, spina bifida, and metabolic disorders, among many others.

However, they say the work at least proves the potential for mRNA therapy to successfully treat not only hemophilia B but also other human disorders, such as hemophilia A (caused by faulty clotting factor VIII) or a variety of diseases of the liver, central nervous system, lung and eyes.

A study at the University of Heidelberg tested GH2002 (a specific form of propolis) against a variety of disease - causing bacteria, including methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and the bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes.

They come in many different varieties, including rheumatoid arthritis, type I diabetes, thyroid disease, lupus, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, and more, and can cause many different types of symptoms all over the body that range from mild to severe in nature.

According to this research, not only will it be possible to develop ways to improve muscular performance, but also explore causes of decreased muscular performance in a variety of diseases.

• Safe: free of disease - causing microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, spores); heavy metals; chemicals from industry and agriculture; pharmaceuticals; disinfectants and related by - products; radioactivity; and synthetic fluoride; • Fresh: neither salty nor stagnant; • Clean: physically, biologically and chemically; • Natural: coming from a pristine mountain stream, glacial river or fresh spring; • Hydrating: water with low surface tension and thus better hydrating; • Mineral balanced: contains a wide variety of minerals including trace minerals, excellent ionic activity (Total Dissolved Solids ~ 300 ppm), including cations such as calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium; and anions such as nitrate, chloride, bicarbonate, sulfate and carbonate.

A variety of bacterial infections have been implicated in triggering autoimmune thyroiditis, including Helicobacter Pylori (the same bacteria that causes ulcers), Borrelia burgdorferi (associated with Lyme disease) and Yersinia enterocolitica.

Only ticks of the blacklegged variety who inhabit parts of the country where Lyme disease is highly prevalent are commonly infected with Borrelia burgdorferi or Borrelia mayonii, the two species of bacteria that cause Lyme disease in the United States.

Extensive research into the impact this flood of technology is having upon us is providing solid evidence that chronic exposure to even low - level radiation (like that from mobile / cell phones), can cause a variety of cancers (especially brain cancer), impair immunity, and contribute to Alzheimer's disease, dementia, heart disease, and many other ailments.

Motility disorders can occur for a variety of reasons, including a side effect of a medication, a result of another disease process, or even for no known cause (which is called idiopathic).

This phenomenon may be caused by a great variety of diseases (often harmless) or be a stand - alone condition, in which case it's called either Anorexia Nervosa or Anorexia Mirabilis in most of the cases.

There are a variety of nutritional deficiencies associated with celiac disease, primarily caused by the inability of the damaged small intestine to properly absorb enough of the nutrients our bodies need.

About 70 % of all cases are the result of auto - immune disease, while the other 30 % result from a variety of causes, including severe stress.

Coconut oil can prevent and even reverse liver disease caused by a variety of toxic agents such as alcohol, bacteria, drugs, and chemicals.27 It does the same for other organs in the body such as the intestines, colon, kidneys, and pancreas.28 - 30

Yoga is an effective treatment for a variety of autoimmune diseases because it can reduce the symptoms these diseases often cause, such as stiffness, malaise, fatigue, and weakness.

We typically employ a variety of lab testing (which may include blood work, saliva testing, breath or stool testing) and come up with a naturopathic treatment strategy to not only alleviate symptoms but address and remove the cause for the disease.

The relationship between the overfat condition and poor health is a spectrum or progression in which the vicious cycle of excess body fat, insulin resistance and chronic inflammation lie at one end, causing abnormal blood fats (cholesterol and triglycerides) and glucose, and elevated blood pressure, which then produces a variety of common diseases at the other end.

Thyroid disease causes a variety of symptoms including hair loss, dry skin, fatigue, cold sensitivity, constipation, weight gain and depression (31).

IBD is a combination of these two diseases causing a variety of gastrointestinal problems.

Vitamin D deficiency is a leading cause of autoimmune complications and is associated with autism and cancer amongst a variety of other conditions and diseases.

Simply put, low insulin sensitivity can cause a variety of health issues, but too much insulin in the body can cause obesity, hypertension, heart disease and, even cancer.

From literatures, it is apparent that there is a general concept that chronic inflammation can be a major cause of cancers and express aging processes... studies suggest that chronic inflammation could have serious roles in a wide variety of age - related diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases.

There can be a variety of causes for this type of PCOS, including Vitamin D or Iodine deficiency, hormone - disrupting toxins, thyroid disease, and adrenal stress.

It takes a wide variety of foods to sustain these systems, and leaving one group out in favor of another can offset the balance and cause serious medical issues such as heart disease, digestive issues, and some cancers.

I have read that H. pylori is associated with a wide variety of health problems, but are you aware of cases where H. pylori seemed to be the primary cause of major systemic (as opposed to narrowly gastric) disease, which then resolved upon treatment of H. pylori?

These metabolites can be used for both diagnostic and therapeutic measurements for: detecting abnormal gastrointestinal overgrowth or dysbiosis, assessing mitochondrial energy production, detecting genetic diseases, assessing malnutrition and suboptimum nutrition, revealing toxic exposure, finding alterations of neurotransmitter metabolites in neurological and psychiatric disorders, and assessing metabolites that cause severe inflammation in a variety of chronic illnesses.

In 2012, the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization devoted to summarizing scientific evidence on health, released a report on the effect of general health checks — an annual physical, if you will — on a variety of health outcomes, including the incidence of illness, hospitalization, disability and mortality, both overall and due to specific causes, such as cancer or cardiovascular disease.