Sentences with phrase «for immune system diseases»

Although the dogs may not actually have thyroid problems themselves, low or high thyroid levels can be a precursor for immune system diseases in future generations.

Your generosity helps our scientists to find new cures and treatments for immune system diseases.

The announcement last month that a fifth child who received gene therapy for an immune system disease has developed leukemia was the latest blow to the field of gene therapy.

Not exact matches

What it does: This bacteria is most notorious for causing severe illnesses such as tuberculosis, leprosy, and Hansen's disease, though most species of mycobacteria in nature are benign in humans, unless in cases of those who have weakened immune systems.

Friday marks World AIDS Day, an occasion for recognizing the myriad struggles, successes, and work left undone — societal, political, and medical alike — in the battle against HIV infection and the immune system - compromising disease it causes, AIDS.

For example, we haven't spent as much thinking about how a healthy immune system engages with the neurologic system, but it clearly does have a role as we look at neurodegenerative diseases.

One more thing, I tossed my sliced veggies in olive oil, salt and garlic powder, I have a slight garlic obsession, not just for it's flavor, but nutritionally benefits: garlic is known to help boost the immune system, its vitamin C contents help fight germs as well as helping to fight against cardiovascular disease.

The health benefits for barley include helping control diabetes, preserving skin elasticity, boosting the immune system, maintaining colon health, preventing heart disease and cancer, and reducing the risk of osteoporosis.

Undetected and untreated, celiac disease can wreak havoc on the immune system and set loved ones up for serious medical problems in the future.

This recipe calls for a wonderful blend of strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries, which are high in phytonutrients that reduce inflammation, boost the immune system, and make it hard for chronic diseases to thrive in the body.

Antioxidants are so good for your body, they lower blood pressure, strengthen your immune system, and help to prevent heart disease.

Antioxidants are so beneficial for our bodies because they boost the immune system, protect against free radical damage and degenerative diseases, and help slow the ageing process — win!

Antioxidants are well known for their ability to strengthen the immune system, thereby warding off diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes.

As 80 % of our immune system is located in our gut, gut health is incredibly important for maintaining overall health and for disease prevention.

But it is also important to remember that pregnancies are accompanied by weakened immune systems that can heighten the risk for several infectious diseases.

I've read (in Scientific American I believe) recent research suggesting that H Pylori helps regulate the human immune system (for its own gain, of course, but ours too by suppressing auto - immune diseases).

However, preterm infants are born with underdeveloped lungs and immature immune systems that put them at heightened risk for developing severe RSV disease, often requiring hospitalization.

These protect the body from diseases like cancer, they're good for the heart and help support the immune system.

«If the breast milk bacteria discovered in this study were important for the development of the immune system, its addition to infant formula could decrease the risk of allergies, asthma and autoimmune diseases,» conclude the authors.

Not being breastfed can disrupt optimal growth and development, especially in the first two years, when the key components of the immune system are forming to protect the child for life from chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.

Physiologic sleep studies have found that breastfed infants are more easily aroused from sleep than their formula - fed counterparts.247, 248 In addition, breastfeeding results in a decreased incidence of diarrhea, upper and lower respiratory infections, and other infectious diseases249 that are associated with an increased vulnerability to SIDS and provides overall immune system benefits from maternal antibodies and micronutrients in human milk.250, 251 Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months has been found to be more protective against infectious diseases compared with exclusive breastfeeding to 4 months of age and partial breastfeeding thereafter.249

When children are not vaccinated, they are at increased risk for diseases and can also spread these diseases to others in their classrooms and community — including babies who are too young to be fully vaccinated, and people with weakened immune systems due to cancer or other health conditions.

While the Rockland County Commissioner of Health Dr. Patricia Ruppert stated that measurements did not reach levels that represent a public health concern, turbidity can interfere with disinfection and provide a medium for microbial growth; may indicate the presence of disease causing organisms; and those dynamics can have effects on health, particularly those with compromised immune systems.

The hypothesis which links the herpes virus and Alzheimer's disease is based on that a weakened immune system among the elderly creates opportunities for the virus to spread further to the brain.

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.

For unknown reasons our immune system attacks healthy cells, tissues and organs in a process called autoimmunity, which can result in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.

Adding another reason for doctors to avoid the overuse of antibiotics, new research shows that a reduction in the variety of microbes in the gut interferes with the immune system's ability to fight off disease.

Understanding the function and dysfunction of the immune system is essential for treating and preventing disease.

Now her team has analysed the immune system's key controller genes for the first time and found that resistant devils have genes that equip them to attack the disease (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2009.2362).

«Suppressing a progenitor from creating the subtype of dendritic cells implicated in causing lupus, for example, could be an efficient way of treating autoimmune diseases while minimising the impact on the rest of the immune system.

Researchers at Nagoya University have been studying the therapeutic effect of T cells, vital disease - fighting components in our body's immune system, for fighting cancer.

«Steep funding cuts for the federal health agencies are counterproductive at a time when innovative research is moving us closer to identifying solutions for rare diseases, new prevention strategies to protect Americans from deadly and costly conditions, advances in gene therapy, new technologies for understanding the brain, and treatments that harness the ability of our immune system to fight cancer.»

Scientists have discovered the first example of a gene solely responsible for an autoimmune disease, a type of disorder in which the immune system attacks the body.

With little hope for Giese's survival, Rodney Willoughby, an infectious disease specialist at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, induced a coma to protect her brain from viral attack, giving Giese's immune system time to rev up to combat the virus.

Dr Dias said the immune system was constantly responding to a spectrum of threats, from minor infections to life - threatening diseases, and researchers all over the world were investigating how the immune system is coordinated and carefully controlled for good health.

A total AIDS cure is still not quite here, but researchers are getting remarkably close — and the quest has upended our understanding of the immune system and laid the groundwork for solutions to hundreds of other diseases.

«Our study reveals a new mechanism that could be harnessed for biological therapies for lupus and other autoimmune diseases, where the immune system mistakenly targets the body's own cells,» says senior study author Boris Reizis, PhD, professor of Pathology and Medicine at NYU Langone.

«Nearly every disease is linked to the immune system,» says Jian Han of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Alabama.

Understanding how the immune system works both in health and disease is crucial if we are to develop new and improved treatments for inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.»

University of Adelaide researchers have developed a new theory for the causes of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases, involving an out - of - control immune system.

For the very young and very old, or people with weakened immune systems, the disease can cause more than misery.

Although the idea of immunotherapy — activating or boosting the body's natural defenses to fight diseases better — has been around for decades, the molecular keys to unleash the immune system without doing more damage than good have long remained mysterious.

They have discovered that «itaconate» — a molecule derived from glucose — acts as a powerful off - switch for macrophages, which are the cells in the immune system that lie at the heart of many inflammatory diseases including arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and heart disease.

«The practice of the Wim Hof Method may lead to tonic changes in autonomous brain mechanisms, a speculation that has implications for managing medical conditions ranging from diseases of the immune system to more intriguingly psychiatric conditions such as mood and anxiety disorders,» said Diwadkar, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences.

«What is most important is the finding that our immune system is poised at birth for disease risk later in life,» said Yuxia Zhang of the University of Melbourne, Australia, who is first author of the study.

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«How to reprogram cells in our immune system: The discovery could improve treatments for autoimmune diseases and cancer.»

The parasite causes toxoplasmosis, not a terribly bothersome disease for people with a healthy immune system.

Advances such as a new understanding of cancer as a genomic disease and successes with immunotherapy — harnessing the immune system to thwart tumors — mean that «the time is right for a renewed surge against cancer,» they write.

With only one drug specifically approved for the treatment of lupus in the past 50 years, lupus patients are commonly treated with steroids, a class of immunosuppressive drugs that delay the development and progression of the disease by suppressing the immune system.