Sentences with phrase «how changes in the immune system»
She holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Aging & Immunity, and investigates how changes in the immune system of older adults and vulnerable populations predispose them to pneumonia infection.The aim of Dr. Bowdish's research at McMaster University is to develop novel preventative and therapeutic strategies that reduce the burden of pneumonia.
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This research is also teaching us more about how food allergies develop and the science behind what needs to change in the immune system to treat them.»
The team is now working on showing exactly what changes the bisphosphonates cause in the macrophages, something which could help us understand exactly how cancer is able to evade the immune system.
A new study shows that loneliness may change how certain genes in the body work, leaving chronically lonely people with less effective immune systems and lower defenses against disease.
Medzhitov's Lab is now looking at the effects of another common sickness behavior — changes in sleep patterns — on how the immune system fights infection.
With recent advances in understanding the virus life cycle, how and where the virus damages the immune system, and the action of new drugs, however, the course of AIDS in many patients in the developed world has dramatically changed.
This includes information on how stress causes immune system changes in healthy adults, changes that may precede disease.
When asked how the recent findings relate to the other research in which his lab is engaged, Dr. Apte explained, «My laboratory has a strong interest in understanding the programmatic changes that occur with aging and lead to immunosenescence [age - related deterioration of the immune system] and neurodegeneration.
It appears that bacteria in our guts determine how much access these peptides have to our immune system, and that gluten also changes our gut bacteria.
Work by Nedergaard and others has changed that in recent years, but a lot of confusion about how the brain and the immune system communicated remained, since there seemed to be no direct access.
When a landscape architect set out to change the state of the soil in her garden, she ended up learning a lot more about microbes, how they communicate with our immune system, and our own cancer risk.
A recent study may be changing the way in which the medical community looks at how strenuous exercise affects the immune system.
Our science programs derive vital data from our sick and injured patients - what diseases they suffer, how their immune systems work, and how they're affected by changes in their environment.