Sentences with phrase «damaging immune attack»

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The drug has an unfortunate side effect of tricking the immune system into attacking healthy cells, but the relative damage was insignificant compared to what cancer would have done to them.

The gluten in grain is not recognized by the immune system, so it attacks the intestines and can cause severe damage.

Undigested gluten triggers the immune system to attack the lining of the small intestine, causing damage to the intestinal wall.

In patients with celiac disease, the presence of the protein gluten from wheat, barley or rye triggers an immune system attack, damaging the villi in the small intestine.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system attacks the body instead of defending it, causing inflammation that often results in serious damage to bones, joints and tendons, and can also affect internal organs like the heart, eyes and lungs.

Simberg and colleagues also tried turning off the complement system — a facet of the immune system responsible for clearing microbes and damaged cells — thinking that this complement system might be attacking, transporting or otherwise accidentally pushing liposomes from blood to cells.

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.

Hoxb8 is usually active in microglia, immune - system cells that clean up damaged neurons and attack pathogens in the brain.

That hyper - response, Miller theorizes, is not unlike what's seen in autoimmune diseases, where the inflammation provoked by an immune system attack proves far more damaging than any pathogen itself.

They also found AXIN2 in the damaged nerve cells of adults with multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the immune system attacks myelin.

What causes the initial nerve damage or incites the immune attack is still a big question.

«Blood clotting protein triggers immune attack on brain: Disruption of the blood - brain barrier triggers a cascade of events that results in autoimmunity, brain damage characteristic of multiple sclerosis.»

CD74 is broken into products that fit into the groove of cell surface immune response proteins as part of the chain of events that activates T cells — immune cells that normally attack infected (or damaged) cells in the body.

The spleen, which is 4 inches long and sits in the upper abdomen, acts as a reservoir of immune cells that speed to the site of heart injury after a heart attack to begin clearance of damaged tissue.

Perhaps that would mean a drug for people who carry the ApoE4 gene, one that would mimic the effects of a parasite without incurring the damage of an infection — a kind of muzzle for the brain's immune system that would keep cells like the astrocytes from attacking healthy neurons.

Maybe the organs that come under attack actually have something wrong with them and are sending the standard, appropriate signals to the immune system that all damaged cells use to have the molecular garbage collectors sweep them away.

But the process, which is often set in motion by cells of the immune system, can also occur whenever tissue is damaged — even in the absence of a pathogenic organism — as, for example, when you stub your toe or, more seriously, suffer a heart attack.

In different contexts, viruses appear capable of attacking tumors in a number of different ways — by directly infecting them, by releasing tumor proteins that trigger a broad immune response against the cancer, and by damaging the blood supply tumors need to survive.

In patients with SLE, the immune system forms autoantibodies that attack the body's own cells, causing inflammation and tissue damage.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is thought to be an immune - mediated disease, most likely auto - immune, in which the immune system attacks the oligodendrocytes, causing damage to the myelin sheath.

The immunotherapy stimulates an immune attack on cancer cells, whereas the chemotherapy drugs directly damage tumors.

To prevent or reduce the damage done to nerve cells by the immune system, researchers are exploring ways to modulate what cells the immune system attacks or the intensity of its attack.

This disease occurs when the thyroid gland tissue becomes inflamed and damaged because the immune system produces damaging antibodies that attack the gland.

RA occurs when your immune system goes into overdrive and attacks the synovium — the tissue that lines your joints — causing joint and cartilage damage.

What causes symptoms is the build up of damage to cells, tissues and / or organs in the body — damage caused by your own immune system attacking those cells.

RA is an autoimmune disease: The immune system attacks the joints and can cause heart, lung, and eye damage.

Think of autoimmune conditions as the immune system going haywire and confusing your own body tissue as an enemy it needs to attack, creating tissue damage and more inflammation.

This includes conditions like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, which occur when the immune system attacks and damages the layers and lining of the bowel, causing chronic inflammation.

The immune system attacks and damages the islet cells that make insulin in the pancreas.

The myelin sheath, which protects nerve fibres in the brain and spinal cord, is attacked and damaged by the immune system.

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.

Lupus, an autoimmune disease, happens when the immune system attacks its tissues, causing inflammation, swelling, pain, and damage.

Glutathione recycling helps balance the immune system, protect the thyroid gland tissue from damage caused autoimmune attacks, and also helps repair damage.

Countless auto - immune diseases are attributed to wheat / gluten, such as Celiac disease (where the immune system attacks the small intestines) or «Leaky Gut» (when the intestinal wall becomes damaged and some undigested food particles «leak» into the bloodstream).

The immune system starts to attack the thyroid more aggressively (symptoms of anxiety, palpitations, irritability as the damaged thyroid releases hormone into the bloodstream).

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

It occurs when the immune system attacks and damages tissue as if it were a foreign invader.

This also affects thyroid health since a suppressed immune system can activate viruses capable of attacking and damaging the thyroid.

It means that now the immune system recognises colon as the source of the problem it attacks the gastrointestinal tract sending antibodies against it causing inflammation and damage.

Your body is already under attack from your own immune system; therefore it's necessary to remove * any foods that are going to cause additional inflammation and damage.

Because the immune system recognises colon as the source of the problem it attacks the gastrointestinal tract sending antibodies against it causing inflammation and damage.

In addition to comprehensive gluten sensitivity testing, Cyrex also tests for the following: foods that cross react with gluten, damage that gluten can cause to your gut and your brain, and autoimmune reactions (when your immune system attacks and destroys body tissue) that may have gone undiagnosed yet cause chronic symptoms.

Triggers that affect the immune system's response to certain substances may cause the body to react slower than normal, or over-react where the body attacks and damages its own tissues (autoimmune disease).

In this way Acetyl - L - Carnitine, like many other antioxidants, slows down ageing process and reduces risk of various associated with damaging effects of free radicals health problems including cancer, heart attack, stroke, fatigue or conditions caused by weak immune system.

Your gastrointestinal tract can not properly process gluten and it gets both fermented and attacked by your immune system, resulting in damage to the intestinal wall and gut bacteria.

For some, this means that the immune system will attack the body during normal functioning, damaging its own tissues and causing destruction within the body that is quite painful.

Celiac Disease is a complete intolerance to gluten, as the body's immune response attacks the nutrient - absorbing villi in the small intestine, causing permanent damage.

If acne is created by your immune system attacking p.acnes bacteria with too much power (which most are) then this bombardment also damages the surrounding tissues.

In this condition, your immune system attacks and damages your thyroid, so it can't make enough thyroid hormone.

For example, a Metal Slime is totally immune to magic, and only receive 1 or 2 damage points per attack.