Sentences with phrase «further immune attack»

We are recruiting people who have developed Type 1 Diabetes in the last 6 months to receive treatments which aim to reset the immune system and mobilize stem cells - hoping that will reverse or prevent further immune attack of pancreatic beta cells.

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That hyper - response, Miller theorizes, is not unlike what's seen in autoimmune diseases, where the inflammation provoked by an immune system attack proves far more damaging than any pathogen itself.

Immune therapy for ovarian, breast and colorectal cancer — treatments that encourage the immune system to attack cancer cells as the foreign invaders they are — has so far had limited success, primarily because the immune system often can't destroy the cancer cells.

Melton said that the device Anderson and his colleagues at MIT are currently testing has thus far protected beta cells implanted in mice from immune attack for many months.

Orchestrating a successful immune attack against tumors has proven difficult so far, but a new study from MIT suggests that such therapies could be improved by simultaneously activating both arms of the immune system.

They found these lesions were as small as those in the CD74 deficient mice, further supporting the hypothesis that the treatment was successful because it stops the immune system from attacking the brain.

«However, the initial mechanism by which the immune system identifies the monobenzone - exposed pigmented cells as dangerous, before attacking them, has been unclear so far,» reports Prof. Dr. Veit Hornung, who recently moved from the University of Bonn to the Ludwig - Maximilians - Universität in Munich.

He further showed that PD - L1 is highly expressed on many solid tumors such as breast and lung, as well as some hematologic malignancies, and allows these tumors to resist immune attack.

Although later studies found no further evidence of an immune link, the coincidence made Mignot and many other sleep researchers suspect that an autoimmune attack was ravaging narcoleptics» hypocretin - producing cells.

To get there, researchers will need to resolve certain obstacles associated with CAR - T, including further customization of the technology to recognize specific / other tumor types, and predicting and limiting cross-reactivity, where CAR - T immune cells start attacking healthy cells as well.

Results of a study published online this week at Nature show that Carabin «acts like an internal brake to dial down the speed and intensity of an immune response so that it doesn't go too fast or too far, or careen out of control and attack healthy cells,» says Jun O. Liu, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology, neuroscience and oncology at Hopkins.

Further tests showed that the fetal immune cells were attacking cells from the mother, and releasing significantly higher levels of inflammatory chemicals as part of their attack.

That strength can backfire, though, leading women to suffer from far more autoimmune disorders — in which the immune system attacks itself — and the host of mysterious diseases thought to sometimes result from an overreactive immune system, such as celiac disease, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and many types of pelvic pain.

Supporting the wrong side of the immune system can result in further destruction of the body's tissue that might be under the attack and lead to development of other associated autoimmune diseases.

I am a proponent of not just using medications for hypothyroidism caused by Hashimoto's, but also of rebalancing the immune system to prevent further attack on the thyroid.

Since many people associate rashes with allergies, it's not a far stretch when people call dermatitis herpetiformis a form of «gluten allergy,» although it's not a true allergy — like celiac disease, dermatitis herpetiformis is autoimmune in nature (indicating an attack by your own immune system in response to gluten ingestion).

Additionally, to help suppress her immune system from attacking her own cells further, Bella was placed on an immunosuppressive therapy of medications.

Common signs of the disease include anemia and difficulty in fighting off even relatively minor further infections (as these viruses attack the cat's immune system).

Bitcoin seems to be so far the version immune to attack, it's been going for 10 years and it's still surviving.»