Sentences with phrase «immune mechanisms»

Furthermore, we wish to explore the implications of improved knowledge in innate immune mechanisms for diagnosing and treating diseases.
A different immune mechanism, the innate immune response, comes into play in reactions of gluten sensitivity, as opposed to the long - term adaptive immune response that arises in celiac disease.
Unfortunately, despite all the knowledge the scientific community has regarding immune mechanisms against cancer, there is still a lot more to dig in.
There are many complex immune mechanisms involved in the interplay between psoriasis and the adrenal glands, but suffice to say, there certainly is a correlation between them both.
Due to a weak immune mechanism, your body at times is unable to resist the attack of foreign substances like the bacteria, parasites and viruses.
Because cats normally have very concentrated urine and effective immune mechanisms, it is very rare for them to have a bladder infection unless there are underlying conditions that allow bacteria to grow.
During this time, she identified immune correlates of protection to influenza vaccines and investigated innate immune mechanisms of restriction against HIV - 1 and Influenza A.
«Natural killer cells help to drive inflammation, insulin resistance: Study in mouse models of diabetes identifies key immune mechanisms in abdominal fat.»
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.
Publishing online this week in Cell Host & Microbe, researchers at Johns Hopkins report the discovery of a key underlying immune mechanism that explains why to how our skin becomes inflamed from conditions such as atopic dermatitis, more commonly known as eczema.
A Miami - based biotechnology start - up company called Beeologics is developing an antiviral drug that exploits an ancient immune mechanism called RNA interference.
«Confronted with sepsis, key immune mechanism breaks, scientists find.»
Immune abnormalities in patients with psychosis have been recognized for over a century, but it has been only relatively recently that scientists have identified specific immune mechanisms that seem to directly produce symptoms of psychosis, including hallucinations and delusions.
Butel says that there are probably more immune mechanisms that are affected by microgravity than just the PKA pathway.
Type I interferon organizes several immune mechanisms to suppress B cell responses to a chronic viral infection.
The precise immune mechanisms that mediate corneal graft rejection remain poorly understood even after 50 years of research in laboratory animals.
Although the immune basis for corneal allograft rejection was formally established in experimental animals by Maumenee (33) over 50 years ago, the exact immune mechanisms that lead to the corneal graft failure remain poorly understood.
The present findings are derived from studies using CD4KO mice and thus, raise the question as to whether the CD4 + T cell - independent immune mechanisms in CD4 KO mice differ from those involved in corneal allograft rejection in wild - type mice whose CD4 + T cells population have been depleted with monoclonal antibodies.
Radiation and dual checkpoint blockade activate non-redundant immune mechanisms in cancer.
He's focused on the physiopathology of severe malaria in pregnant women and children, with a special interest in the identification of clinically relevant cytoadhesion phenotypes in P. falciparum and P. vivax, in the host and parasite molecules involved as well as in the targets of protective immune mechanisms.
When digestive remnants that are foreign to the body overload the usual mechanisms for trapping and breaking them down in the gut, innate immune mechanisms mobilize to recycle them.
(11, 12) Lowered immunity may also predispose children to SIBO by disrupting normal immune mechanisms in the intestine that keep bacterial counts in check.
Arginine supplementation can improve cellular immune mechanisms, especially T - cell function.
Supplementing the diet with arginine and increasing the concentration of this amino acid in the body can enhance immune mechanisms, and is specifically used in postoperative surgical patients to return T cell levels to normal.
Chronic early trauma alters children's stress reactivity and increases the prevalence of anxiety disorders; yet the neuroendocrine and immune mechanisms underpinning this effect are not fully clear.
We investigated the relative importance of different immune mechanisms in limiting the spread of the intestinal microbiota.
The logic is indirect, autophagy is a key innate immune mechanism against intracellular pathogens and protein restriction upregulates autophagy.
Dr. Kim is particularly interested in glutamate homeostasis and the interplay between neural and immune mechanisms of drug dependence and relapse.
Studies on detoxification pathways — the immune mechanisms by which the body dismantles toxins — were few and far between; research never explained how certain exposures could snowball into the profound dysfunction reported by this hobbled patient group.
Oral immunotherapy for peanut allergy induces early, distinct changes in immune T - cell populations that potentially may help researchers determine which people will respond well to the therapy and which immune mechanisms are involved in the response, a new study suggests.
A neuroimmunologist, Dr. Hauser's research has focused on the genetic basis, immune mechanisms, and treatment of multiple sclerosis.
Metabolites could also trigger an immune mechanism that could harm the virus.
Although the immune mechanisms implicated in the development of childhood asthma are not fully understood, some studies seem to suggest that the BCG vaccine, used in tuberculosis prevention, may have a protective effect on childhood asthma.
Blood disorders include a range of disorders such as anemia, blood cancers, haemorrhagic disorders, blood cell disorders and disorders of the spleen or immune mechanism.
Right now, its causes are unknown although various self - immune mechanisms are known to be involved.
These findings also demonstrate the remarkable plasticity and redundancy in the immune mechanisms that mediate allograft rejection.
The data is informing future clinical research by providing insights into the immune mechanisms generated by the RV144 regimen and the effects of an additional boost.
Mindset is instrumental to healing, since our thoughts influence our tendency towards inflammation, our propensity to develop pathology, the density of our brain matter, and our attainment of allostasis — the adaptive activation of neural, neuroendocrine and neuroendocrine - immune mechanisms to maintain stability in the face of stressful challenges (McEwen, 1998).
One theory is that iris cysts cause glaucoma, 5 and another theory is that complex auto - immune mechanisms trigger pigment dispersion inside the eye and cause glaucoma.4
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