Sentences with phrase «chronic immune stimulation»

In addition, the body's attempt to rid itself of the worms results in chronic immune stimulation, which further complicates the disease.

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Senior author Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D., the Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology, and chief of Hematology, said the study, using tissue and blood samples from humans and mice, shows that chronic stimulation of the immune system by lipids made in the context of inflammation underlies the origins of at least a third of all myeloma cases.
«[It] supports this idea that chronic inflammation in children, perhaps through exposure to bacterial endotoxin in the gut, is causing these different immune cell populations to be non-responsive to cytokine stimulation,» Petri said.
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