Sentences with phrase «defense against pathogens»

Just like with humans, the skin on marine mammals serves as an important line of defense against pathogens in their environment.

The skin microbiome is considered our first line of defense against pathogens.

Innate immunity is the first line of defense against pathogens in all plants and animals.

The concept of ETI was developed to describe defense against pathogens that enter into plant cells (e.g. wheat rusts and mildews, potato late blight pathogens) and fits their defense mechanisms well.

The ETI concept does not hold for defense against those pathogens that go into the leaf but not into the cells.

These plants also showed strong immune responses in the form of an increased concentration of salicylic acid, a plant hormone which regulates defense against pathogens.

These proteins are involved in plant stress responses in general, particularly in defense against pathogen attack.

Kombucha tea is a fermented tea (naturally effervescent) that contains billions of friendly gut organisms (probiotics) that help to strengthen your immune system by bolstering your levels of good organisms in your gut, which provides a first level of defense against pathogens from things you ingest.

A healthy layer of mucous is the gut's first line of defense against pathogens like ingested viruses, parasites, bacteria, yeast in addition to any foreign food proteins and toxins.

That could prove a boon for halting the worrisome spread of bacteria resistant to vancomycin, an antibiotic that doctors are trying to safeguard as a last line of defense against pathogens.

Toll / interleukin -1 receptor (TIR) domain - containing proteins play important roles in defense against pathogens in both animals and plants, connecting the immunity signaling pathways via a chain of specific protein - protein interactions.

But if an accident leads to substantial blood loss, for instance, or the defense against a pathogen requires more blood cells in the course of an infection, the stem cells are activated.

Thus, finding pathogens in plaque may not be related to Alzheimer's disease, but, as proposed by the researchers it may be a defense against pathogens.

The innate immune system contributes a first line of defense against pathogens and coordinates the series of events that lead to the healing of damaged tissues.

Hydrochloric acid is also the first line of defense against pathogens and bacteria you ingest.

In addition, eating causes an unavoidable — and energy - depleting — spike in immune activity, with inflammatory conditions increasing as a natural line of defense against pathogens that may be in food.

It also promotes the production of white blood cells, which are the first line of defense against pathogens.

Knowing what is in the products you use on your body is extremely important as your skin is your first line of defense against pathogens and toxins in our environment.

In fact, ongoing research has implicated the gut microbiota in all sorts of health - related processes like nutrient uptake, defense against pathogens, production of neurotransmitters, immunomodulation, and intestinal barrier function.