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Not exact matches
Dr. Lyuba Konopasek, an Assistant
Professor of Pediatrics at New York Presbyterian / Weil Cornell Medical Center told Care.com exposure to mold in toys is usually not something to be too alarmed about, unless your child has a
immune disorder.
«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.
«Knowing that
immune cytokines can change pigment production in melanocytes, while also knowing that chronic inflammation has the potential to increase the number of melanocytes, has clear implications for the design of future therapies to address a set of common skin
disorders,» says Dr. Krueger, director of Milstein Research Program and D. Martin Carter
Professor in Clinical Investigation.
«Our results suggest a role for gestational maternal infection and innate
immune responses to infection in the onset of at least some cases of autism spectrum
disorder,» says first author Mady Hornig, associate
professor of Epidemiology and director of Translational Research at CII.
New research by Vladimir Litvak, PhD, assistant
professor of microbiology & physiological systems, suggests the
immune system plays an unsuspected and surprising role in the progression of Rett syndrome, a severe neurological
disorder affecting children.
Today, Rudensky, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and
professor of immunology at Sloan - Kettering Institute in New York City, counts among the world's foremost immunologists for his discoveries on the molecular architecture of a type of
immune cell implicated in autoimmune
disorders, inflammatory disease, and cancer.
«Our study uncovered that alterations in the innate
immune pathways could induce behaviors resembling obsessive - compulsive
disorder in progranulin - deficient mouse models of FTD,» said Gan, who is also a senior investigator at Gladstone and a
professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco.
Prior to joining Helmsley, Garabet was an assistant
professor in the Immunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he led a research team investigating the implication of innate
immune mechanisms in IBD, Crohn's disease, colorectal cancer, and other gastrointestinal
disorders.
Turns out, black cumin seeds and oil are used in traditional medicine by many Middle Eastern and Asian healers for a broad array of diseases, including some
immune and inflammatory
disorders, says Hwyda A. Arafat, MD, PhD, associate
professor, departments of surgery and pathology, anatomy and cell biology at Jefferson Medical College.
«The remarkable changes in home microbial content across differing levels of urbanization raise the possibility that the reduced microbial exposure to environmental bacteria seen in modern homes contributes to
immune and metabolic
disorders, from asthma to obesity, which have become the new disease paradigm in the industrialized world,» adds Dominguez - Bello, an associate
professor in the Department of Medicine at NYU Langone.