Sentences with phrase «immune system sets»

When susceptible people come into contact with flakes of cat skin called dander, T cells in their immune systems set off a chemical chain reaction that produces the familiar symptoms of allergy, including sneezing, runny noses, itching and asthma.

Not exact matches

Burn out is a real thing and can not only set you back a few days on productivity but it can sneak up on your immune system, potentially causing you to miss time off of work.

Today, according to The New York Times, Parker is set to announce that he is donating $ 250 million to bolster the research and development of cancer immunotherapy — a treatment method that attempts to use cancer patients» own immune systems to fight the disease.

Undetected and untreated, celiac disease can wreak havoc on the immune system and set loved ones up for serious medical problems in the future.

It alsoboosts your immune system and a study at Ball State University, Indiana, found taking a minimum of 0.88 g of whey per pound of body weight could prevent the ills of overtraining from setting in.

Experts are realizing the importance of a well - balanced microbiome (the collection of bacteria your baby inherits at birth) because it literally sets the stage for your overall gut and immune system health for years to come.

After all, your baby's immune system is getting stronger and she likely already got her first set of vaccines last week, right?

Most children will not experience any reaction to their vaccinations yet their immune systems may be set up to react to peanut protein, for example, in the future.

Chang said that understanding more about the microbiome in an unhealthy state can help scientists begin to learn how to promote the development of a microbiome that sets the stage for a healthy immune system.

A decade ago a drug based on an internal protein of the flu virus, called NP (for nucleoprotein), set the immune system's killer T cells into action, but it only partially protected mice from the flu.

In its 20 and 27 April issues, Science Signaling presents a set of Teaching Resources as well as student - authored Journal Clubs that cover topics ranging from signaling in cells of the immune system to signaling in plants.

Quintana - Murci and his colleagues set out to explore the evolution of the innate immune system over time.

The research is part of a growing field called ecoimmunology, which aims to push the study of immunology beyond lab animals like fruit flies and mice and understand how immune systems function in real - world settings outside the lab.

Kelso and her colleagues came to the same conclusion, but they didn't set out to study the immune system.

George Klinman, an FDA immunologist and lead author of the report, speculates that dangling the protein in front of the immune system in an unusual setting — on a muscle cell — might be what triggers the inappropriate response.

The new gene permanently switched on a set of genes normally affected by insulin and involved in the immune system.

These peptides also have another critical ability that sets them apart from traditional antibiotics: They can recruit the host's immune system, summoning cells called leukocytes that secrete chemicals that help kill the invading microbes.

«We set out to map out interactions between bacteria and the immune system in the hope that this could eventually lead to the development of an apothecary of agents tailored to modulate the immune system selectively and precisely,» said senior investigator Dennis Kasper, professor of medicine and microbiology and immunobiology at HMS.

Each vaccine is essentially personalized for the individual patient, using the patient's own tumor which has a unique set of mutations and thus a unique presentation to the immune system.

The long - chain lipoproteins on S. aureus led to a considerably reduced immune response, both in the innate and the adaptive immune system; while the short - chain lipoproteins on S. carnosus set off an immune response which was almost ten times stronger.

In the hunt for genetic and environmental factors responsible for allergies, a prime suspect has been interleukin - 4 (IL - 4); this immune system protein tells white blood cells to make IgE antibodies, which recognize foreign substances and set off an immune attack.

In fact, preliminary evidence already exists that HHV - 6 may be associated with some lymphomas, a diverse set of cancers affecting the cells of the immune system.

When pathogens infect the cells of the body, the infection sets off a chain reaction involving the immune system that changes the activity, or expression, of hundreds of genes.

Johns Hopkins researchers say they have identified a set of genes that appear to predict which tumors can evade detection by the body's immune system, a step that may enable them to eventually target only the patients most likely to respond best to a new class of treatment.

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.

But puffing cigarettes can increase the likelihood that certain bacteria like Porphyromonas gingivalis will not only set up camp but will build a fortified city in the mouth and fight against the immune system.

And among identical twin siblings, who have the same genome, immune system features differed more strikingly within older twin pairs than in younger sets.

But if the immune system is indeed attacking the corneal protein identified by the Cantor group, the discovery could «in principle allow us to disrupt or arrest this component» of the attack, says M. Reza Dana, an ophthalmologist and ocular immunologist at Harvard Medical School, perhaps by inactivating the specific set of immune cells responsible for it.

These weak or killed stimulants, called antigens, are grown in a lab setting, isolated and then mixed with preservatives, stabilizers and a substance like aluminum that will trigger the immune system to vigorously respond to the vaccine.

It is the latest twist in the tale of the major histocompatibility complex, a set of immune system genes that influences mating preferences.

By tacking an amino acid sequence onto the end of a protein, the bug manages to set up camp inside a host cell, safe from the immune system, without killing the cell.

A separate set of trials in rabbits, which concluded in April, demonstrated that the doubled - up molecule provoked the animals» immune system to produce antibodies.

Information about interactions between the immune system and the virus, which influence the set point level are therefore of crucial importance.

«We've set out to examine the mechanisms behind these phenomena, while focusing on the role the immune system plays in brain development.»

In a new study in mice published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (HNRCA) set out to determine if excess folic acid intake caused adverse changes in the immune system.

In a separate set of experiments, Frank showed that the PcrV antibodies prevented the bacterium from shooting its toxin into cells, including macrophages, the immune system's scavenger cells, which are particularly vulnerable to Pseudomonas.

T cells, frontline defenders of the immune system, recognize cells that don't belong in the body — such as bacteria — and set off a cascade of events to kill them.

Depression is associated with a multitude of pathological processes, including inflammation of the peripheral immune system, a set of biological structures and processes in the lymph nodes and other tissues that protect against disease and abnormalities involving synapses, the structures that permit neurons to pass an electrical or chemical signal to other neurons.

The lower the set point, the longer the immune system can function effectively.

Shortly after infection, HIV levels skyrocket, but then the immune system and other antiviral factors produced by cells drive down the amount of virus in the blood — the so - called viral load — and establish a «set point.»

A. fumigatus is harmless to healthy people, but for those whose immune systems are impaired by AIDS or immunosuppressive drugs, it can set up an infection in the lungs which is usually fatal.

Zhao and colleagues examined the ability of the CRISPR - Cas system, a set of molecules borrowed from a form of immune system in bacteria (CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, describing a feature of this system in bacterial genomes).

Another group, led by molecular biologist Gregory Hannon of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, knew that a set of seven microRNAs showed up in some immune system tumors.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a technique that co-opts an immune system already present in bacteria and archaea to turn off specific genes or sets of genes — creating a powerful tool for future research on genetics and related fields.

But the process, which is often set in motion by cells of the immune system, can also occur whenever tissue is damaged — even in the absence of a pathogenic organism — as, for example, when you stub your toe or, more seriously, suffer a heart attack.

He specifically proposed that evolutionarily conserved features of infectious organisms (pathogen - associated molecular patterns or PAMPs) were detected by the immune system through a set of specialized receptors (which he termed pattern - recognition receptors or PRRs), an especially prescient aspect of this hypothesis.

Immunosenescence describes the complex set of changes that occur in all components of the immune system, as well as the local environment, that result in loss of immune function as we age.

Therefore, in the new study, Saunders and her coinvestigators set out to see if immune system factors were different in women and men with bipolar disorder, with the eventual goal of finding reliable markers for the disease.

In its natural setting, CRISPR - Cas9 is an acquired immune system in bacteria and archaea.

In fact research today points to the fact that chronic, low - grade abnormalities in immune system response set the stage for chronic diseases in general, including OA.