Sentences with phrase «damaging lung inflammation»

Neutrophils are double - edged in bacterial pneumonia: They kill the bacteria but also cause damaging lung inflammation.

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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.

E-cigarette vapors also «produced mild effects on the lungs, including inflammation and protein damage,» notes Thomas Sussan of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, lead author of the study, published February 4 in PLOS ONE.

«We found that in young healthy mice the immune system overreacted to the influenza virus, which led to more inflammation, greater lung damage and increased mortality compared to healthy adults exposed to the virus,» says lead author Bria Coates, MD, Critical Care physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Emissions from e-cigarette aerosols and flavorings damage lung cells by creating harmful free radicals and inflammation in lung tissue, according to the UR study published in the journal PLOS ONE.

As well as reducing inflammation in the lung, MSC therapy also resulted in significant improvements in lung structure, suggesting that this form of treatment has the potential to repair the damaged lung.

Animals treated with the NFAT inhibitor were protected against pathological inflammation and lung damage.

But because the immune system wasn't able to overreact, the mice showed reduced lung inflammation and damage to lung cells and were protected from mortality.

To date, no medication has been successful at preventing or mitigating the damage caused by lung inflammation.

If the numbers of neutrophils in the lungs are not well regulated, however, they can cause inflammation and damage.

pneumonia A lung disease in which infection by a virus or bacterium causes inflammation and tissue damage.

Closer examination of this gene variant suggested it may regulate the expression of a neighboring gene, SLC39A8, which is known to help protect the airways and lungs from inflammation and cellular damage.

Your own healing cells can target a slowed degenerative progression of COPD, restore blood flow, address system - wide inflammation and stimulate the repair and replacement of damaged lung tissue.

This novel approach utilizes adult stem and regenerative cells from your body fat which aim to repair the damaged tissue in your lungs while reducing inflammation and restoring the flow of oxygen - rich blood to these vital organs.

This inflammation damages blood vessels, the heart, lung and joint tissues, skin and the digestive tract.

These cells are associated with the inflammation produced in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, so it may be helpful in reducing the lung damage associated with this smoking - related ailment.

Another more common example is cigarette smoke, which causes chronic inflammation in the lungs, producing oxidation (and free - radicals) and leads to DNA damage and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as well as lung cancer.6 A hallmark of both of these processes in the activation of nuclear factor - Kappa B (NF - KB), which is a protein complex that the body produces in response to inflammation, free radicals, cytokines, all hallmarks of stress.

Short term cigarette smoke exposure has been associated with acute lung inflammation and oxidative damage.

These omega - 3 fatty acids help reduce inflammation in the lungs and lessen tissue damage after an asthma attack.

The thick mucus also causes bacteria (or germs) to get stuck in the airways, which causes inflammation (or swelling) and infections that lead to lung damage.

The inflammation and immune cells can begin to damage the cells they surround which can begin to cause damage to organs, most commonly the joints, skin, kidneys, lungs and brain.

More importantly, the damage caused by plaque and gingivitis isn't limited to only teeth and gums, but can actually affect the entire body, leading to heart disease, diabetes, inflammation, kidney disease, bladder infection and lung disease.

Inflammation becomes generalized and can cause lung damage, kidney damage, inflammation of the heart muscle, organ failure, shocInflammation becomes generalized and can cause lung damage, kidney damage, inflammation of the heart muscle, organ failure, shocinflammation of the heart muscle, organ failure, shock and death.

This damage often comes in the form of inflammation of the lung tissue, known as pneumonitis.

Having said this, in rare cases, serious damage to the organs like the lungs, liver and brain can occur as a result of the inflammation caused by infected larvae circulating around the body.

Additionally, the presence of the heartworms irritates the body and the lungs, causing inflammation and damage to the tissues.

Allergies can also cause inflammation and damage to the intestinal tract, causing vomiting and or diarrhea, and can damage the lungs, in some cats, leading to asthma.

These foot - long heartworms cause severe lung disease and inflammation, heart failure, and damage to other organs in the body.

Not - quite - full - grown microfilaria can get stuck in the capillary beds of the lungs and cause significant inflammation and damage.

«Gum inflammation and tooth loss can be very painful to your animals and costly to treat, but they also can lead to more serious conditions, including damage to the heart, lungs and kidneys.»