Sentences with phrase «cells in the immune system mistakenly»

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Usually, the body's own immune system — which normally fights harmful bacteria and viruses — mistakenly destroys the insulin - producing (islet, or islets of Langerhans) cells in the pancreas.

These cells play a key role in autoimmune disease — in which the immune system mistakenly identifies the body's own tissues as foreign and attack them.

The four children also had more of the types of species that are known to trigger gut inflammation, a possible prelude to type - 1 diabetes, in which the body's immune system mistakenly produces antibodies that attack and destroy the beta cells of the pancreas that normally make insulin.

Loss of insulin - producing beta cells has long been recognized as a cause of Type 1 diabetes, in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys beta cells.

In type 1 diabetes, the body's immune system mistakenly kills the β cells for still - unknown reasons, and the body is left without insulin.

In T1D, beta cells are mistakenly attacked by the body's own immune system, and much prior research has focused on ways to prevent this autoimmune response.

TYPE 1 DIABETES OCCURS when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys insulin - producing beta cells in the pancreas.

The treatment is designed to stop the immune systems of those with type 1 diabetes, a condition which usually develops in childhood, from mistakenly destroying the cells which create insulin.

Having discovered a genetic «key» (called P - TEFb) that is important in both cancer cell growth and immune cell differentiation, they tested the drugs on a mouse model for uveitis, an incurable eye condition in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue leading to inflammation of the uvea (the middle layer of the eye).

In people with type 1 diabetes, the body's immune system mistakenly attacks insulin - producing cells in the pancreaIn people with type 1 diabetes, the body's immune system mistakenly attacks insulin - producing cells in the pancreain the pancreas.

It is generally understood that autoimmune disease is a scenario in which the immune system mistakenly attacks part of the body, thinking that healthy cells are foreign or harmful antigens.

The condition is autoimmune in nature, which means gluten doesn't cause the damage directly; instead, your immune system's reaction to the gluten protein spurs your white blood cells to mistakenly attack your small intestinal lining.

It occurs when the body's immune system mistakenly attacks and damages insulin - making cells in the pancreas.

In some cases, the immune system may overreact or mistakenly target cells, bacteria, and tissue that is beneficial or necessary for one's health.

Autoimmune diseases are those in which the immune system, which normally protects the body from disease and infection, mistakenly attacks healthy blood cells.

In these pets, their immune system has mistakenly identified these cells as foreign to the pet's body - something that shouldn't be there and that needs to be destroyed.