Sentences with phrase «immune control of»

But the authors of the new study do link stress - reduction techniques with improved immunity: «Added immune control of disease processes, particularly early — when patients were recovering from surgery and receiving adjuvant cancer therapies — may have occurred with the declining stress.»

This work demonstrated the central role of HLA - B * 27 and HLA - B * 57 in immune control of HIV infection, and of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) escape in HIV pathogenesis (Goulder et al, AIDS Res Hum Retr, 1996; Goulder et al, Nat Med, 1997).

With respect to biological applications, the group is focusing on how cellular heterogeneity and cell - to - cell communication drive ensemble - level decision - making in the immune system, with an emphasis on «two - body» interaction (e.g., host cell - virus interactions, innate immune control of adaptive immunity, tumor infiltration by immune cells).

Not exact matches

«Chronic stress and overexposure to cortisol — which increases sugars in your bloodstream, alters your immune system responses, suppresses your digestive and reproductive systems, and communicates with that part of your brain that controls mood, motivation and fear — puts you at risk for mental health problems like anxiety and depression, and a whole host of physical health issues,» writes Levy.

CRAC channels control the entry of calcium into immune and other cell types, and calcium is an important intracellular signaling molecule that modulates cytokine production and the immune response.

September 13, 2010 (Washington, DC)-- Results from the Employee Ownership Foundation's 19th Annual Economic Performance Survey of ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) companies that are members of The ESOP Association show that ESOPs are not immune to economic developments beyond their control.

The most troubling of public neighbors were the able - bodied unemployed, and reformers endeavored to separate out those worthy poor who were the temporary victims of economic circumstances beyond their control and those unworthy poor immune to the appeal of the Protestant work ethic.

The structures of control within the U.S. media are different from the institutionalized formal censorship we might expect of a government - controlled press; they are less visible and more subtle, not monolithic yet hierarchical, transmitted to the many by those who work for the few, essentially undemocratic and narrow in perspective, tied to the rich and powerful but not totally immune to the pressures of an agitated public, propagandistic yet sometimes providing hard information that is intentionally or unintentionally revealing..

The link between depression and the immune system has been shown using positron emission tomography using a tracer for the translocator protein (TSPO) showing increased immune activation in the brains of patients with major depressive disorder compared with control subjects.

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.

In a healthy baby, the growth of the yeast is kept under control by the baby's immune system.

In addition to working as raw materials, amino acids control a staggering number of biological functions from thinking ability to immune responses and muscle synthesis.

Animal studies show that low levels of BPA affect the hormones that control the development of the brain, the reproductive system, and the immune system.

Rarely is this the reality — a person can not control chromosomes, uterine factors, immune responses, or viruses that are the typical causes of a pregnancy loss prior to 20 weeks (the defined period of time of a «miscarriage»).

One thing that mom needs to consider, is if baby is exposed to people who are sick with certain diseases now under control thanks to vaccines, baby could become severely sick and have to battle things out with the power of their immune system.

A randomized placebo - controlled trial of massage therapy on the immune system of preterm infants.

Diabetes, asthma, autism, arthritis, obesity, and other auto - immune diseases are spiraling out of control.

Dr. Saper's research has explored circuitry of the brain that controls basic functions such as wake - sleep cycles, feeding, and immune response, and how these circuits are disrupted in neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, in sleep disorders such as narcolepsy and sleep apnea, and during aging.

Lymphatic vessels can be considered the pneumatic tubes of our immune system; the lymph nodes its control centres.

CDI's platform is especially helpful in constructing panels for biomarker discovery, because researchers can begin by using patient samples or banked samples to compare immune profiles of cohorts that show particular symptoms (or no symptoms in the case of control samples).

A type of immune therapy known as PD - 1 blockade controlled cancer in 77 percent of patients with defects in DNA mismatch repair — the system cells use to spell - check and fix errors in DNA (SN Online: 10/7/15).

The advance, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal, for the first time allows scientists to analyze how normal gut microbes and pathogenic bacteria contribute to immune responses, and to investigate IBD mechanisms in a controlled model that recapitulates human intestinal physiology.

They do this «by activating the portion of the immune response which initiates and helps control tissue repair,» the researchers note in the June 2017 issue of Gynecologic Oncology.

Correspondingly, they found that neural circuits in the brain that contribute significantly to the control of anxiety and social interactions were significantly affected in the immune - activated mice.

As might be expected of an autoimmune disease, where the immune system turns on healthy tissue, all the genes play a role in controlling the growth and multiplication of cells in the immune system.

The child, nearly 4, was found to have high levels of HIV in her blood, suggesting that the virus had escaped from immune control.

They discovered a population of NKT cells that have a gene that controls so - called regulatory T - cells, whose role is to suppress the immune response.

«If we learn how to control dendritic cells, we could strengthen our immune response to infection when needed, or weaken the action of certain immune cells that attack the body's own tissues in autoimmune disease.»

Marta Monteiro and colleagues at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, studied mice protected from the animal equivalent of multiple sclerosis by natural killer T - cells (NKT), a class of white blood cell which helps to control the immune system.

Books such as Building Public Trust and Biosafety in the Laboratory sit on the shelves, and «IL - 6» and «TNF - α» are scribbled on the whiteboard — abbreviations representing some of the very immune factors that fatally spiraled out of control in Gelsinger's body.

When Markovic told his wife, a cardiologist, about his discovery of the striking similarities between how tumors and placentas control the immune system, he describes her as being wholly unsurprised.

In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine showed certain immune cells — neutrophils — can clean up nerve debris, while previous models have attributed nerve cell damage control to other cells entirely.

The researchers found that production of this mucus lining depends upon a single immune system regulator — the NLRP6 inflammasome — that controls mucus secretion by cells in the wall of the intestine, just like turning on a faucet.

«We are able to wirelessly control the action of immune cells buried deep in tissue,» Zhou said.

Septic shock, which causes 9 percent of deaths in the U.S. each year, occurs when the immune reaction to a bacterial infection grows out of control, shutting down organs and sending blood pressure plummeting.

Many common diseases may be influenced by the microbiome, because microbes control many of the body's essential chemical processes: They predigest our food, chemically modify the pills we take, shape our immune system responses, and repel infectious invaders.

Professor Nutt said increasing our knowledge of the mechanisms that controlled the immune response was vital for understanding how immune and inflammatory diseases arise and, ultimately, developing more effective treatments.

The immune systems of this small population — perhaps 50,000 Americans — somehow control the virus for long periods of time.

From a vaccine - development perspective, it would be particularly troubling if the former ends up being the case because it is hard to control immune response — especially when scientists are not sure what facet of the virus may set off that cascade of action.

Like a cruel form of mind control, some cancerous tumours can reprogram some immune cells to «block» other immune cells from attacking, leaving the tumour free to grow.

If we can boost the immune system and allow microglia to do their job and control brain tumor stem cells, it would be like removing the seed from the soil — stopping the tumor growth before it starts to get out of control.»

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.

«We were fascinated to find that, without the influence of Myb, Treg cells would allow the immune response to spin out of control, resulting in severe inflammation pretty much everywhere — whether in the lungs, liver, intestine or skin,» she said.

Preclinical findings revealed that Myb gives immune cells called regulatory T (Treg) cells the «authority» to control the strength of the immune response depending on the level of «threat», from minor infections to aggressive diseases.

The study found that loneliness desensitizes the glucocorticoid receptors, cutting off the immune control and anti-inflammatory effects of cortisol, a stress - related hormone that also helps regulate the conversion of carbohydrates to energy.

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.

Healthy adults mounted strong immune responses after receiving an investigational whole inactivated Zika virus vaccine, according to interim analyses of three Phase 1, placebo - controlled, double - blind trials conducted at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), and Saint Louis University School of Medicine.

The invasion of epithelial cells and immune cells are controlled by two separate gene clusters called Salmonella Pathogenicity Islands 1 and 2 (SPI1, SPI2) respectively.

He notes, however, that researchers need to develop more rigorous ways to test the role of the gut microbiome in controlling immune reactions.

The researchers studied two types of cells called effector T cells, which activate the immune system to defend our body against different pathogens, and regulatory T cells, which help control the immune system and prevent it from attacking healthy parts of its environment.