Sentences with phrase «immune system controls»

I understand the simplicity and the dangers and how the immune system controls many body functions.

The immune system controls the cancer cells in your body.

Cancer immunoediting is a process by which the immune system controls the growth of nascent tumors and shapes their antigenic properties.

Ipilimumab interferes with a process by which the immune system controls the activation of T cells that destroy diseased tissues.

I - Chueh Huang has spent 13 years researching how the human immune system controls viral infections.

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.

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.

Probiotics help us break down sugars, control harmful bacteria, fight diarrhoea, relieve indigestion, resist against chronic inflammation and boost immune system function.

This simple seaweed is also high in minerals and amino acids to maintain health as it controls everything from the immune system to mood.

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.

Probiotics help break down sugars, control harmful bacteria and improve our immune system so we can enjoy summer and the holidays sniffle - free.

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

The syndrome effectively breaks down your autonomic nervous system: the system that controls everything that is meant to happen automatically in the body - so your heart beat, digestion, circulation and immune system.

(Interferon medication helps control the immune system.)

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.

It can also help boost the immune system, lower cholesterol, and control blood sugar levels.

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.

Normally, the immune system uses good microorganisms to keep C. albicans and other bad microorganisms under control.

Due to an immature immune system, sleep may be accompanied by erratic movements caused by your baby's inability to control her reflexes.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

The absent genes are replaced with ones that control the immune system specificity.

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.

But once it has the assailants under control, the immune system must reign in the inflammation it caused because, if left unregulated, it can do extensive tissue damage.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Pawtect pendants work with your pets» unique energy to strengthen their immune system and create a frequency barrier that repels and controls fleas, ticks and mosquito's [sic].»

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.

CMV is a common pathogen that infects almost 60 percent of adults in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and can lead to devastating developmental defects in fetuses and severe disease in people with weakened immune systems.

Many cancers take control of regulatory T cells to suppress the immune system, creating an environment where tumors can grow without being detected.

These genetic miscues can cause cells to grow out of control, evade the immune system, or fail to execute essential functions needed to maintain health.

Set off by certain foods like peanuts, shell fish and a host of others, IgE - associated food sensitivity prompts the immune systems of some children to surge out of control.

To explore these questions Akiko Iwasaki, professor of immunobiology and investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and her co-authors observed replication of the Zika virus in the vaginal tissue of control, wild - type mice (genetically unmodified mice) and mice lacking genes that regulate immune system proteins known as type I interferons.

While trying to come up with a contagious method of birth control among rodent pests, an Australian lab in 2001 modified a mousepox virus, which, unintentionally, caused the rodents» immune system to fail completely — even in animals previously vaccinated against mousepox.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report evidence that zebrafishes» natural ability to regenerate their eyes» retinal tissue can be accelerated by controlling the fishes» immune systems.

He has been developing a method of birth control that uses a woman's own immune system to block fertilization.

Specifically, they determined that the immune systems in genetically altered mice lacking the critically important calcium channel component STIM1 failed to control TB, leading to severe lung inflammation and premature death.

«Immune system found to control eye tissue renewal in zebrafish: Discovery suggests that strategies to regulate immune system cell reactivity to injury and cell loss might one day unlock and boost human tissue and cellular regeneration.»

However, when our immune system is stressed on Earth or in space, such as during long - duration space travel, C. albicans can grow out of control and potentially cause infections.

«We show precisely how a key «switch protein», PHR1, controls the response to low levels of phosphate, a big stress for the plant, and also controls the plant immune system,» said Jeff Dangl, John N. Couch Distinguished Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

The findings, published today in Nature, demonstrate that these myeloproliferative neoplasias only appear after damage to the microenvironment that sustains and controls the hematopoietic stem cells — the cells that produce the cells of the blood and the immune system.

Humans have thousands of immune system genes, and they interact with one another in complex ways; some, for instance, control others.

RIPK2 works in conjunction with NOD1 and NOD2 (nucleotide - binding oligomerization domain) proteins in controlling responses by the immune system that lead to this inflammation process.