Sentences with phrase «not attacked by the immune system»

In type 2 diabetes, the pancreas is not attacked by the immune system, but either produces less insulin than is needed, or the body is unable to use the insulin the pancreas does produce.

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The gluten in grain is not recognized by the immune system, so it attacks the intestines and can cause severe damage.

That hyper - response, Miller theorizes, is not unlike what's seen in autoimmune diseases, where the inflammation provoked by an immune system attack proves far more damaging than any pathogen itself.

According to Dr. Cripe, the study suggests that some patients could respond to therapy even if their tumors aren't very infectable by the virus, provided their immune systems were stimulated by the viral therapy to attack the tumor cells.

The immune system does not normally attack «self» proteins, so by producing protein fragments, or peptides, that imitate the structure of those in the body's own tissues, viruses and bacteria may avoid destruction.

A potential solution to this problem is to reprogram other cell types into functional beta - like cells, which can produce insulin but are distinct from beta cells and therefore are not recognized or attacked by the immune system.

He explains, «The protein that Kathryn characterized is part of the process by which these molecules trick the human immune system so that it doesn't attack the bacteria as hard as it should, so they survive in the body.

In a study published online today by the journal Nature, the investigators show that CDK4 / 6 inhibitors not only stymie the division of cancer cells but can also spur the immune system to attack and kill the cells.

Many of the downregulated genes are involved in the immune system — an interesting result given the recent finding that D. sechellia can't mount an immune response to an attack by the parasitoid wasp Asobara tabida.

By Dr. Justin Marchegiani When your immune system response can't distinguish between your body and any toxins you've ingested, the result is called «systemic inflammation:» when your body attacks its own tissues.

This attack by our immune system causes chronic inflammation and may explain many conditions such as atrophic gastritis that destroys both the acid - producing cells and the IF - producing cells in older people who eat meat but do not abuse alcohol.

I am a proponent of not just using medications for hypothyroidism caused by Hashimoto's, but also of rebalancing the immune system to prevent further attack on the thyroid.

Your gastrointestinal tract can not properly process gluten and it gets both fermented and attacked by your immune system, resulting in damage to the intestinal wall and gut bacteria.

Since many people associate rashes with allergies, it's not a far stretch when people call dermatitis herpetiformis a form of «gluten allergy,» although it's not a true allergy — like celiac disease, dermatitis herpetiformis is autoimmune in nature (indicating an attack by your own immune system in response to gluten ingestion).

The swine flu probably got us all, killed some 20,000 people — and left the rest of us not only largely unharmed, but also improved our collective immune system to resist new attacks by resembling H1N1 viral mutations.