Sentences with phrase «defense against microbes»

After laser surgery for skin, topical vitamin C reduced skin injury and restored acidic skin pH. Acidic skin provides defense against microbes, and inflamed skin can have a higher than normal pH. Vitamin C also has anti-acne effects (possibly by lowering sebum secretion and preventing water loss from skin) and reduces pigmentation (e.g. for freckle reduction or to help remove skin marks).

Because of a week immune system, defense against microbes is also weak, as a result the child is likely to suffer from infections and illnesses that a baby with normal birth won't.

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The innate immune response constitutes the first line of defense against invading microbes and plays a role in inflammatory disease.

The idea is to target microbes at different points in their life cycle, thus minimizing their ability to evolve a defense against a drug and become resistant.

To learn how Mycobacterium tuberculosis mounts a defense against a drug, Baliga is first looking within the bacterium, identifying the genes, proteins and other molecules that interact as the microbe infects a host.

Previously, Bais and his research team isolated Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105, a bacterium that lives in the soil around the roots of rice plants and found that this beneficial microbe can trigger a system - wide defense against the rice blast fungus.

Ripping a page from the Star Trek script, specialized cells of the barrier that lines the inside of the intestines and airways of humans have invoked a biological version of Captain Kirk's famous command «shields up» as a first defense against invading microbes.

In Nourishing Broth, Sally Fallon Morell and Dr. Kaayla Daniel detail research which suggests that cartilage supports healthy immune function by «stimulating just about every time of white blood cell the body needs to mount a strong defense against unwanted microbes.»

Dr. Sarah Cimperman, ND @DrCimperman Skin is the body's largest organ and it's our first line of defense against foreign invaders like microbes and environmental toxins.

Your immune system is your body's natural defense system against foreign invaders like parasites, bacteria, viruses, microbes and toxins.

Regarding this bacteria, Donna Gates, the creator of the Body Ecology Diet, says «this microscopic militia serves as a child's key line of defense against disease - causing unfriendly microbes (bad gut bugs)» such as yeast.