Sentences with phrase «individual types of blood cells»

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If the body can not produce insulin (as is the case in people with type 1 diabetes), or if the cells ignore or resist insulin (as is common in type 2 individuals), blood glucose levels rise, sparking the crippling complications of diabetes.

The researchers then took naïve immune cells — which transform into different types based on the invaders they encounter — from the blood of healthy individuals and exposed them to bacteria in the guts of MS patients.

The team found that individuals with long - standing type 1 diabetes and diabetic enteropathy have altered colonic stem cells (CoSCs) and increased blood levels of a regulatory protein called insulin - like growth factor binding protein 3 (IGFBP3), which is produced in the liver.

UH researchers have identified a unique epigenetic footprint in specific types of immune cells from blood that can identify individuals with HIV that have a range of impairments in cognitive function.

Examining the genomic and epigenetic makeup of major types of immune cells from nearly 200 blood donors in the U.K., IHEC researchers found that genetics explain most of the epigenetic variation among individuals.

The current results suggest that better understanding the way in which mononuclear white blood cell signaling processes are altered, net of effects on individual differences in cell type composition, is promising as a mechanism by which protective parenting influences young adult pro-inflammatory tendencies among African American youth.