Sentences with phrase «immune system malfunctions»

The dog's immune system malfunctions and starts attacking the gland, which damages the thyroid and causes it to put out fewer essential hormones into the body.

Your pet's blood lymphocyte numbers can also go down when lymphocytes are lost into retained fluids (chylothorax) and in immune system malfunctions.

Autoimmune diseases are when the body's immune system malfunctions and goes into overdrive, falsely recognizing some of its own tissue as foreign (in this scenario, thyroid gland tissue); this leads to the formation of autoantibodies (a.k.a. antibodies against the body's own tissue).

Our immune system malfunctions, our metabolism goes haywire (making us fat) and our delicate brain chemistry gets messed up.

Walford's new research is based on the fact that in mice and humans, the immune system malfunctions during aging, losing the ability to distinguish between healthy cells and invasive pathogens such as bacteria and viruses.

An autoimmune disorder occurs when the body's immune system malfunctions.

The condition is caused by the immune system malfunctioning and mistakenly attacking nerves in the brain and spinal cord.

Alopecia areata — sudden hair loss characterized by one or more bald spots on the scalp and caused by autoimmune disease — a immune system malfunction where your body attacks your hair follicles.

Type 1 diabetes is caused by an immune system malfunction, where the autoimmune system destroys insulin - producing cells in the pancreas.

All true food allergies are caused by an immune system malfunction.

Not exact matches

If the immune system weakens and malfunctions, imagine the host of diseases that can invade your system.

Bordenstein and Brucker found that the parental microbiome was causing a malfunction in the hybrids» immune systems, which likely contributed to their deaths.

For years, scientists thought that a bacterial toxin might cause the immune system to malfunction in this way — but sepsis is actually just an exaggeration of one of the usual immune defenses against bacteria and other invaders.

«The malfunction in this protein has not been previously linked to clinical disorders of the human immune system,» said Ivona Aksentijevich, M.D., staff scientist in NHGRI's Medical Genetics Branch and study co-author.

«Rather than innocent bystanders to a malfunctioning immune system, our research shows beta cells are central players in the disease itself.»

When someone is infected with the Ebola virus, part of the reason that the resulting disease is so severe is because the virus causes parts of the immune system to malfunction.

The HPA axis plays a major role in controlling reactions to stress and the immune system and, if it malfunctions, it can stimulate the release of the two proteins that cause chronically elevated levels of inflammation, which is tissue's response to injury.

For the daughter of a 17th century farmer, a mutation causing a weakened immune system or a malfunctioning heart might have been an early death sentence — or at least prevented her from having her own children.

* Researchers are still seeking to find out what causes this malfunction of the immune system in order to intervene therapeutically in the processes.

For example, people who have multiple sclerosis — caused by a malfunction of the immune system — had almost double the normal risk of getting dementia.

«The immune system in the liver represents a key missing link in our understanding of how the liver malfunctions in obesity to dysregulate sugar levels,» adds Dr. Revelo.

He and the Vereide Group grow precursors of human arterial cells, build colonies of dendritic cells (cells which can alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of a tumor), and use chick embryos to study the formation of early tissue layers for a possible future in which complex tissues, or even organs, can be grown to replace diseased, wounded, or malfunctioning ones.

Interferon signaling is central to the innate immune system, so answers to these questions also can lead to better understanding of cancers and diseases and new drugs related to immune activity or malfunction.

This is in part a problem of configuration: a lifetime of exposure to persistent pathogens such as herpesviruses leaves too much of the immune system uselessly devoted to specific targets that it can not effectively clear from the body, and too little left ready to fight new threats and destroy malfunctioning cells.

«The idea that a malfunctioning immune system contributes to Parkinson's dates back almost 100 years,» said study co-leader David Sulzer, PhD, professor of neurobiology (in psychiatry, neurology and pharmacology) at CUMC.

There are four types of lupus, but you hear most about systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a malfunction in the immune system in which your body becomes its own worst enemy.

The main reason for this is that chemicals (mainly known as cytokines) produced from stress to the immune system can cause the Kreb's cycle to malfunction.

Inflammation leads to disturbed gut flora (or maybe it's the other way around — the classic chicken and the egg dilemma), SIBO, malfunctioning toll - like receptors, and leaky gut, allowing proteins to enter the body and provoke an inflammatory response by the immune system.

Hashimoto's thyroiditis results from a malfunction in the immune system.

That indicates the cause of these enamel defects is some malfunction in your immune system, rather than the nutritional deficiencies that develop due to gluten - induced small intestinal damage.

Inadequate amount of zinc in our body results to loss of appetite and malfunction of the immune system.

Second, low or negative thyroid antibodies can give a false sense of Hashimoto's being «cured» or going into remission when in fact your immune system continues to malfunction and your thyroid gland is being destroyed under the active autoimmune attack.

It can punch holes in the wall of the gut lining, leading to bloating, creating an aching belly, and causing your immune system to malfunction.

Studies have long indicated that the malfunction of the brain's immune system plays a key role in Alzheimer's.

While radiographs (x-rays) are a common test utilized for many orthopedic (musculoskeletal) problems, you might be surprised to learn that parasites, bacteria, viruses and even organ malfunction, immune system attack or hormone imbalance may be to blame for your pet's problem.

Once the digestive tract is challenged, the immune system, (which is directly linked to the digestive tract) often begins to malfunction giving rise to a whole host of diseases and illnesses such as cancer in dogs.

The cause of a malfunction of the immune system is not known.

The live active bacteria existing in plain yogurt is a perfect option for aging cats who may have a weak or malfunctioning immune system.

This inflammation can be caused by infection of the brain (bacterial, viral, fungal and parasites are examples of infectious causes of encephalitis) or can be immune - mediated; which means the body's immune system is malfunctioning and creating abnormal inflammation for reasons we do not fully understand.