Sentences with phrase «normal immune mechanisms»

(11, 12) Lowered immunity may also predispose children to SIBO by disrupting normal immune mechanisms in the intestine that keep bacterial counts in check.

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The advance, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal, for the first time allows scientists to analyze how normal gut microbes and pathogenic bacteria contribute to immune responses, and to investigate IBD mechanisms in a controlled model that recapitulates human intestinal physiology.

In a study published in the journal Science, an international collaboration of investigators from Dana - Farber, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, and the University of Strasbourg uncovered a mechanism that allows key immune system cells to keep a steady rein on their more belligerent brother cells, thereby protecting normal, healthy tissue from assault.

The authors said that this result suggests that the reason bacterial numbers are so high in these mice, and, by extension, human LAD patients, is not because of a defect in the immune system's surveillance mechanism but because of the inflammation caused by the immune system's abnormal response to normal levels of bacteria in the gums.

«Using a small molecule to significantly boost and overcome limitations of the TRAIL pathway appears to be a promising way to address difficult to treat cancers using a safe mechanism already used in those with a normal effective immune system.

Building on each other's work, the five award recipients demonstrated how this normal self - defense mechanism can be hijacked by tumors as a way to evade immune surveillance and dodge an attack.

Supplementing the diet with arginine and increasing the concentration of this amino acid in the body can enhance immune mechanisms, and is specifically used in postoperative surgical patients to return T cell levels to normal.

In DLE, normal immune defense mechanisms (antibodies) inappropriately attack the skin cells...