Sentences with phrase «immune diseases such as multiple sclerosis»

Low vitamin D levels also appear to increase the risk of several cancers and auto - immune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and diabetes.

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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.

The team identified 345 regions of the genome where they could pinpoint the likely molecular causes underlying a person's predisposition to immune - related diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis.

This has led to the experimental use of antigenspecific therapies (using a substance to initiate an immune response) to prevent, stabilize, or reverse immunerelated diseases, such as allergies and multiple sclerosis.

«It's early to speculate,» Kipnis says, «but I think that alteration in these vessels may affect disease progression in those neurological disorders with a prominent immune component, such as multiple sclerosis, autism and Alzheimer's disease.»

They also assist in the prevention of autoimmune diseases, such as diabetes (an immune attack on the pancreas) and multiple sclerosis (an immune attack on the nerves).

These super-stimulants may be especially ray ban outlet effective in the realm of cancer, where the immune system is not responding to a stealthy threat. But in dealing with autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis or inflammatory bowel disease, it is more necessary to rein in over-enthusiastic immune cells.

It turns out that rituximab can also work for diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune conditions in which overactive B cells in the immune system contribute to the inflammation and degradation of healthy tissue.

This could help scientists understand autoimmune diseases, where the immune system turns against normal body tissues, such as in Type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis.

Cannabinoids have been shown to act as immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory agents in skin diseases, as well as in many other pathologies of the immune system, such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and allergic asthma.

Some of these conditions are known as «autoimmune» diseases, in which an overzealous immune system overshoots its target, giving rise to illnesses such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis.

Support your immune system to prevent infections, especially common respiratory infections, and reduce your risk of chronic diseases, such as cancer and multiple sclerosis.

GMOs may increase cancers; Alzheimer's disease; inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis; various autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and lupus; and hormonal problems stemming from effects upon our DNA and immune system.

The immune system offers protection from microbial infection, but at times, it breaks down and leaves you vulnerable to autoimmune diseases such as thryoiditis, sustemic lupus, myocarditis, type 1 diabetes, and multiple sclerosis.

Now, she is an author and researcher that advocates the power of real food in recovery from multiple sclerosis and a host of other conditions — including lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, auto - immune conditions, scleroderma, mental health concerns, neurological disorders, depression, anxiety, bipolar issues, Alzheimer's, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's, and even primary care problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.

The researchers, led by Dr Steven Holloway from the University of Melbourne Faculty of Veterinary Science, have taken DNA from 100 dogs in the quest to determine what in their genetic makeup causes diseases such as diabetes, granulomatous meningitis (similar to multiple sclerosis) and immune - mediated haemolytic anemia, a condition which causes the immune system to attack red blood cells.