Sentences with phrase «lost fighting the infection»

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He made a name for himself in Super Bowl IX: After losing 18 pounds while fighting pneumonia and a lung infection, he left the hospital the morning of the game and starred in Pittsburgh's 16 — 6 win over the Vikings.

Human breast milk that is frozen or stored for longer than 48 hours loses a significant amount of its antioxidant content, making it less able to help infants fight off free radicals that play a role in allowing infections and other diseases.

However, when mature blood cells are lost, for example through severe bleeding or during infections, HSCs become activated to generate new «progenitor» cells — the cells that replenish the blood supply and produce immune cells to fight disease.

When fighting chronic viral infections or cancers, a key division of the immune system, known as CD8 T cells, sometimes loses its ability to effectively fight foreign invaders.

Some viruses such as HCV manipulate the PD - 1 off switch so that T cells lose their ability to fight the infection, a condition scientists call «T - cell exhaustion.»

«Today, when antimicrobial resistance represents a major threat to global health and new treatment options are frighteningly few, losing an entire class of antibiotics would represent a major setback in the fight against infections.

When are bodies are depleted of this chemical, we become inflamed, unable to fight against infection or disease, thus ultimately losing proper cell function.

Coconut has had a bad reputation for years for being high in saturated fat, yet most of the saturated fat in coconut and its oil is lauric acid, which has been shown to help people lose weight, in addition to having a number of other beneficial properties, such as lowering cholesterol and fighting off bacterial infections.

Additional health concerns such as upper respiratory infections and fleas, may cause your kitten to lose weight, as her body fights off infection, or suffers the depletion caused by a flea infestation.

As the body gets older, it loses its ability to fight infection as well as it used to.

The game pits rival military factions in a desperate battle for resources in a world lost to the zombie infection, where players must fight the instinct to kill zombies in order to spare the shamblers and deploy them as weapons against the enemy.