Sentences with phrase «environmental compounds»

Over time, Gelhaus spun an independent interest in the contribution of environmental compounds to noncancerous lung and airway diseases out of her original project.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers say ancestral exposures to environmental compounds like the insecticide DDT may be a factor in high rates of obesity.

In a community - based challenge led and organised by scientists from EMBL - EBI, Sage Bionetworks, IBM, the University of North Carolina, and the NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), hundreds of computational biologists from all over the world tried their hand at predicting the toxicities of environmental compounds that had potential adverse health effects.

They identified several unknown chemicals beyond chloride that were consistently associated with babies who had CF, including two different drug and environmental compounds the infants secreted in sweat at much lower concentration levels.

Taking birth control pills can compound this problem, making it more difficult to detoxify an environmental compound.

We know this is an inappropriate immune response; these environmental compounds are not out to hurt us.

Although these synthetic scents and fumes are unhealthy for both people and the environment, those who react negatively to them are experiencing TILT, or toxicant - induced loss of tolerance, a condition in which the body loses the ability to tolerate these environmental compounds.

Everyday levels of an environmental compound do not necessarily trigger symptoms if the body's glutathione levels are at healthy levels.

Multiple chemical sensitivities indicate you have lost a tolerance to environmental compounds and your antioxidant status is low, making your brain more vulnerable.

In the second stage, an ordinary exposure to an environmental compound, whether it is traffic exhaust, fragrances, a drug, or other chemical, suddenly triggers an immune response.

The issue is not how many chemicals or heavy metals a test shows are in your body but whether your immune system is reacting to these environmental compounds.

When our body is being exposed to these environmental compounds, it is responding to them as if they are a foreign invader, like a bacteria or a virus.