Sentences with phrase «of dormant viruses»

In a study of overweight but otherwise healthy people, those with loneliness showed higher levels of inflammation when faced with stressful activities; another set of subjects experienced more inflammation, pain, depression and fatigue than normal, plus a reactivation of dormant viruses in the body.

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The virus can stay dormant for a long period of time and this is known as chronic hepatitis B. And if you test positive for hepatitis B in pregnancy, don't worry, there're ways to protect your baby.

Entinostat, an anti-cancer drug, is the latest of a family of drugs that could lead to a full cure by reviving dormant virus and flushing it out into the bloodstream, where it can be killed by standard antiretroviral drugs.

Evidence that Ebola can lie dormant for over a year suggests that 17,000 survivors of the disease in West Africa could yet spread the virus to many others

Infection via the nasal passage is probably quite common, as is harboring a dormant reservoir of HHV - 6, but in people with MS, the virus is active.

The classic trick of herpes viruses is their ability to lay dormant in the body, undetected by the immune system, just waiting for the perfect opportunity to cause a new outbreak of cold sores, shingles, or mononucleosis.

Research has shown that the activity level of HIV's genetic material strongly influences whether the virus remains active or whether it becomes dormant.

«Understanding how the herpes virus switches from being dormant to causing cancer is important because of the health problems the herpes virus causes worldwide,» said Gao, a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Keck School of Medicine.

A provocative study links prolonged episodes of sepsis — a life - threatening infection and leading cause of death in hospitals — to the reactivation of otherwise dormant viruses in the body.

They lie dormant and can not be eliminated by anti-retroviral therapy, nor by the weakened immune system, so that if treatment is stopped at any time, the virus starts to replicate and infect more cells again, while the immune system can not suppress this rebound of HIV infection.

Adults get shingles when the chicken - pox virus they were exposed to as children breaks out of its dormant hiding place in the nervous system.

It was thought, but until now not demonstrated, that inhibitors of immune check - points could, in a similar way, wake up dormant HIV - infected cells and also the immune defences against the virus.»

As soon as the soap hits your skin, islands of grease will begin to dissolve, exposing dormant viruses and living bacteria.

The HIV virus becomes latent or dormant — essentially hiding within the depths of that person's own organs and systems.

The first reports that gene - editing of bone marrow stem cells in monkeys infected with a variant of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) significantly reduces the number of dormant «viral reservoirs» that pose a risk of reactivation.

The field of oncolytic viruses was quite dormant in the first decade of the 2000s, characterized by slow clinical progress due to hypercautiousness and low, albeit steady, investments.

That means some amount of virus will always remain dormant, creating a major impediment to finding a cure.

These small, mobile and virus - like DNA elements have been a part of plant genomes for millions of years and most of the time they lie dormant and do no harm.

LA JOLLA — Imagine a single drug that could prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, treat patients who have already contracted HIV, and even remove all the dormant copies of the virus...

But even with treatment, the virus remains dormant within a small percentage of infected CD4 cells — and perhaps even within other types of cells — in a variety of tissues.

He died at the age of 12 from Burkitt's lymphoma probably triggered by the Epstein - Barr virus, which lay dormant and undetected in the transplanted bone marrow he recieved.

They are the most abundant form of life on Earth, but viruses — or their seed - like dormant state, known as virions — are outliers in our search for life on other planets.

To eliminate HIV latency, scientists are exploring a «shock and kill» strategy that would use a combination of drugs to wake up the dormant virus, then act with the body's own immune system to eliminate the virus and kill infected cells.

Shingles is a reawakening of the dormant chicken pox virus, and it can cause severe and debilitating pain, blindness, brain inflammation, hearing problems or death.

When a person with herpes is not experiencing an outbreak, the herpes virus remains dormant in the system at either end of the spinal column.

The virus may lie dormant in the body for several years and suddenly crop up in the form of cold sores in the event of an outbreak.

When someone becomes infected, wong said the virus lives in the nerves where it stays dormant most of the time.

Q: In Darwin's Radio, you wrote about the evolution of a new human species that is triggered by an HERV, or Human Endogenous Retrovirus — which, if I understand correctly, is a kind of ancient virus that has entered into human DNA and persisted there in a dormant state for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years.

Periodically, with stress, the virus, which lays dormant in nerves of the face, will reappear forming oval corneal ulcers that are slow to heal.

It is a common virus and may lie dormant for long periods of time, then re-activate during a period of stress, which can result in clinical disease.

It is a common virus and may lie dormant for long periods of time and re-activate during a period of stress, which can result in clinical disease.

Once the cat has come into contact with FeLV, the virus lies dormant in the cell DNA of the host cat for several months or several years before presenting with any symptoms.

This is because these females eventually clear their bloodstream of virus leaving only the non-infective, dormant virus in portions of their nervous system.

As you may know, some people will develop «shingles» in their adult lives, which is a re-emergence of the chicken pox virus that has been lying dormant in the body since childhood.

One of the hardiest virus known to science, Panleuk can live outside the body in a dormant yet infectious state for more than one year.

Because both diseases can lay dormant for years before causing medical problems, testing for both viruses is commonly recommended in any sick cat, regardless of the previous testing.

But when the initial infection was with the cat herpes - 1 virus (like human fever sore virus and chicken pox both other types of herpesvirus and both of which also remain dormant in our bodies) the virus never really leaves the cat's body.

It can reactivate dormant feline herpesvirus, leading to recurrence of upper respiratory signs and active shedding of virus.

Yes, it is possible for the virus that causes genital warts to be dormant for long stretches of time.