Sentences with phrase «inflammation of»

A necropsy performed at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) determined that Knut had inflammation of the brain (encephalitis) and suggested the cause was an infectious agent.

Individuals with IBD and primary sclerosing cholangitis (inflammation of the bile ducts) are at a much higher risk for progressing to CRC and require closer management of their debilitating disease (Dyson and Rutter, 2012; Williamson and Chapman, 2015).

PanIN1 lesions are relatively common, affecting 16 percent of healthy adults and 60 percent of people with chronic pancreatitis, or inflammation of the pancreas.

Obesity is associated with a low - grade inflammation of white adipose tissue (WAT) resulting from chronic activation of the innate immune system.

Most of these scrotal masses, though, result from much more common problems like hernia, hydrocele, testicular torsion or inflammation of the epididymis.

While much has been made about Mr. Ali's boxing career and its connection to his development of Parkinson's, there are many factors that could have played a role in his illness, including genetics, concussions, and inflammation of the brain caused by repeated blows to the head.

Published work show that people who have had inflammation of the brain due to head trauma, viral or bacterial illnesses are at a much higher risk of developing a neurodegenerative disease.

Tooth trauma or dental caries can lead to the inflammation of dental pulp tissue, the all too familiar pain of toothache, and potentially irreversible damage.

It can be eliminated in the eye using antiviral drugs, but inflammation of the cornea can persist indefinitely, requiring ongoing treatment with steroid - based eye drops.

«Meningitis is a condition where a bacteria or virus causes inflammation of the tissues overlying the brain.

A smaller number of people go on to suffer from antibiotic - refractory Lyme arthritis — a painful inflammation of the joints that long outlasts the infection.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a potentially debilitating autoimmune disease characterized by very painful inflammation of the joints, particularly in the hands and feet.

It's no secret that smoking is harmful, but it's been hard to study its effects on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a disease that leaves sufferers short of breath thanks to inflammation of the small airways in the lung.

The children have a patchy inflammation of the colon, rather like colitis as we recognise it historically.

Children with asthma experience difficulty breathing as a result of chronic inflammation of the airways, which can be alleviated by inhaling drugs called bronchodilators that make the muscles lining the airways relax, allowing them to reopen.

3 - 4 days after the initial disease induction step, the mice start developing pathology characterized by severe inflammation of all 4 mouse limbs.

A. Chronic pancreatitis is a progressive disease characterized by ongoing inflammation of the pancreas.

At a recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, researchers showed that desert dust aided the expansion of Vibrios, a bacteria found in the ocean and responsible for gastroenteritis — inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, along with certain infectious diseases.

If the immune system is distracted or weakened the virus can gain a foothold again to replicate and increase the number of viral particles in the CSF, this causes irritation and inflammation of the meninges resulting in meningitis.»

This includes those with a family history of it or those suffering from chronic inflammation of the intestine such as colitis.

About Asthma Asthma is a chronic condition resulting from inflammation of the airway.

Rarely, immunotherapy will trigger a severe autoimmune response that can cause inflammation of the liver, lungs, or colon.

Higher PSA levels can also be caused by other conditions, like inflammation of the prostate or enlarged prostate.

For example, NAFLD is a risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes, which, in turn, is a major contributor to progressive inflammation of the liver (nonalcoholic steatohepatitis [NASH]-RRB-.

Previous studies have shown that more than one third of root fillings show signs of encapsulated inflammation of the dentine.

Dr Colasanti said: «This study, combining two advanced complementary brain imaging methods, suggests that the inflammation of the hippocampus affects the brain function and causes depression.»

A focus of our research is to define the role of the CD11d CD18 integrin in leukocyte biology and inflammation of the central nervous system.

Researchers who examined studies that compared EEN with steroids in children with active Crohn's disease found that EEN was just as effective as steroids in controlling the inflammation of Cohn's disease whether during the first attack or a relapse.

Very little gas was produced as the clip dissolved and there was no inflammation of the surrounding tissues after 1 to 12 weeks.

The most common side effects were those that related to the way the drugs affect the functioning of the immune system, such as diarrhea, colitis (inflammation of the lining of the colon) and raised levels of alanine aminotransferase (an enzyme, raised levels of which can indicate liver damage).

More commonly, it causes uveitis, or inflammation of the uvea, the pigmented middle layer of the eye.

Chronic inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis) is an important risk factor that leads to a 15-fold increase in the likelihood of contracting pancreatic cancer.

Other patients develop chronic myocarditis, a progressive inflammation of the heart muscle, which results either from the establishment of persistent virus infections that the body can not eliminate or the induction of autoimmunity to heart proteins.

The diseases causes inflammation of the blood vessels in small children that leads to fever, rashes and reddening, and even coronary aneurysms that can cause heart attacks in the young.

A total of 263 specific disorder types were recorded in German Shepherds, the most common of which were inflammation of the ear canal (7.89 % of dogs), osteoarthritis (5.54 %), diarrhea (5.24 %), overweight and obesity (5.18 %), and aggression (4.76 %).

Older adults over age 65 are at high risk for developing pneumonia, an inflammation of the lungs typically caused by infection.

Clinical features most associated with readmission included patients with lupus nephritis (kidney inflammation), serositis (inflammation of the lining of the lungs, heart, abdomen, or abdominal organs) and thrombocytopenia (low blood platelet count).

Smeyne suspects that all flu viruses, including the current H1N1 swine flu pandemic, could cause symptoms of encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain.

Animal welfare organisations say BST causes unacceptable harm to cows, which are more likely to suffer from mastitis, a painful inflammation of the udder.

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.

Some alleles corresponded to higher levels of IL - 1ß, and people with these versions of the genes were five times more likely to suffer from stomach cancer — perhaps because a surplus of IL - 1ß, by shutting down acid production and sustaining an inflammation of the infected areas, allows H. pylori to spread further within the stomach, the authors speculate.

Wearing contaminated contact lenses can cause redness and inflammation of the eye, leading to rare but potentially serious infections.

NASH, which causes inflammation of the liver that is not caused by alcohol abuse, is a very serious condition and can act as a catalyst for the onset of other diseases such as cirrhosis and liver cancer.

C. difficile causes inflammation of the large intestine, resulting in diarrhea.

Lab tests indicated that resolvins suppress inflammation of monocytes and neutrophils, two types of immune cell.

AS is a painful, progressive and disabling form of arthritis caused by chronic inflammation of the joints in the spine.

The virus is able to pass the blood - brain barrier, and the most serious effects (in 0.7 % of the infected) are encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) and meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord), both of which can be fatal.

«Ind - Cl is just such a drug in that it inhibits selective inflammation of the central nervous system,» Tiwari - Woodruff added.

But up to 20 years later, between 20 and 30 per cent of infected people develop a life threatening inflammation of the heart muscles.

The symptoms range widely: over half of the infections are thought to be asymptomatic, the majority of children who get sick have only a mild fever, and a very small proportion get inflammation of the heart or brain.