Sentences with phrase «immune system attack»

An autoimmune disease is one in which the body's own immune system attacks healthy cells.

It's believed to play a role in the prevention of cancer and disorders that are caused by the body's own immune system attacking itself.

In the syndrome, the body's immune system attacks part of the nervous system and is characterized by muscle weakness and paralysis, which can be permanent.

She is now looking at how the mouse immune system attacks the parasite to see whether the host's response to the infection is the culprit.

Most thyroid conditions result from an out - of - balance immune system attacking the thyroid.

Identifying and addressing autoimmune diseases, situations where the body's immune system attacks body tissue, creating chronic inflammation.

Essentially, the body's natural immune system attacks and destroys the insulin - producing cells — called the beta cells — in the pancreas.

These disorders occur when your body's immune system attacks healthy tissues.

Some people develop diabetes because their own immune systems attack and destroy the cells that make insulin.

Thus the final pre-clinical step in the development of a treatment involves protecting from immune system attack the approximately 150 million cells that would have to be transplanted into each patient being treated.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease in which the body's immune system attacks myelin, the protective sheath around nerve cells that helps send messages to the brain and other parts of the body.

In some cases, the microbes might even be calling in immune system attacks on their competitors, Rawls said.

Autoimmunity is a process where the body's immune system attacks normal healthy tissue.

Guillain - Barré syndrome is a rare muscle disorder in which a person's immune system attacks nerve cells, damaging the peripheral nervous system connecting the brain and spine with the rest of the body.

Lupus is a systemic, autoimmune disease where an overactive immune system attacks healthy joints and organs.

Autoimmune diseases are those in which your dog's defective immune system attacks and damages parts of its own body.

The signs you see in the effusive form of FIP are believed to be the result of your cat's immune system attacking what it perceives as a threat from foreign invader.

In the malady, a victim's immune system attacks hormone - producing organs such as the pancreas and the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands, often rendering them nonfunctional.

SjS is an immune mediated chronic inflammatory disease where the body's immune system attacks glands that secrete fluid, such as the tear and saliva glands.

First, the immune system develops antibodies that attack the body's own DNA, then that activated immune system attacks the kidneys,» Mohan said.

The findings upend the long - held scientific belief that only cells, known specifically as dendritic cells, infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis could stimulate a broader, defensive immune system attack of the invading microorganism.

In the case of the potentially much more dangerous cow milk allergy, however, the body's immune system attacks milk proteins with its own IgE antibodies.

Fewer Tregs results in a fiercer immune system attack.

A rare condition that begins as the body's immune system attacks peripheral nerves, causing weakness or tingling in the lower extremities.

«By bringing our research together, we want to illuminate pathways by which tumor cells and HIV evolve to avoid immune system attacks and use this knowledge to identify new targets for prevention and treatment for both diseases.»

In all these diseases, the disorder doesn't lie in the tissue being attacked, such as the thyroid, but instead in an imbalanced and hyper zealous immune system attacking the tissue it was meant to protect.

Hashimoto's results from an underlying autoimmune disease, in which the body's immune system attacks thyroid tissues.

Given that human skin produces an inflammatory response against all sorts of other proteins, bacteria, and oxidised compounds, it's highly plausible that these foreign molecules also trigger a big immune system attack.

Allergies are true immune system phenomena in which the cat's immune system attacks specific substances it has mistaken for invaders.

Autoimmune skin disorders in dogs consist of the body's immune system attacking self dermal tissue.

However, while the feline immune system attacks the arriving worms, evidence suggests that the worms are able to suppress the immune response.2

This makes prednisone an effective treatment option for autoimmune diseases, which are caused by an overactive immune system attacking different systems and organs in the body.

Wuerffel recently announced he was hospitalized and diagnosed with Guillain - Barre Syndrome, a rare disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the nervous system, according to the National Institute's of Health website.

Fly strike, with its red, crusty, bleeding lesions on the tips of a dog's ears can look just like mange, scratching from allergies, vasculitis — swollen, inflamed blood vessels — or erythematosis, an autoimmune disorder where the animal's immune system attacks normal, healthy tissue.

Gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye, has been shown to trigger and promote celiac disease, an autoimmune condition where the body's immune system attacks healthy cells.

The faulty nerve signaling that underlies the disease is thought to stem from the body's own immune system attacking and degrading the axons» myelin sheaths.

Autoimmune diseases, where a dog's defective immune system attacks its own body, are extremely common in German Shepherds.

It's where your immune system attacks your thyroid.

When you eat foods contain any of those ingredients, the immune system attacks the fingerlike projections of tissue called villi.

An estimated 12 million people in the United States have food allergies, and an additional 2 million have celiac disease, a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks itself when exposed to gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye.

In patients with celiac disease, the presence of the protein gluten from wheat, barley or rye triggers an immune system attack, damaging the villi in the small intestine.

Or, the intended mother could suffer from a condition called recurrent pregnancy loss wherein her body's immune system attacks the fetus as it would a harmful virus and causes her to miscarry the pregnancy.

* CD4 cells are a component of the immune system attacked by HIV.

If the immune system attacks the thyroid gland, it can cause the gland to secrete too much T3 and T4 hormones.