Sentences with phrase «of gut tissue»

Deletion of the GM - CSF gene in the mouse led to reduction and impaired regulatory function of gut tissue macrophages and dendritic cells which compromised induction of tolerance to food antigens and increased mice susceptibility to IBD.

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One of the first places to look when building immunity is your gut, where 70 - 80 % of your immune tissue resides.

Beneficial gut microbes including Bifidobacterium and lactic acid bacteria «feasted» on chocolate, creating anti-inflammatory compounds that may reduce inflammation of cardiovascular tissue.

About 80 % of our immune system resides in our gut, specifically in the GALT (gut - associated lymphoid tissue), which protects the body from invasion of pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and viruses.

It takes more than 6 months for the tissues in your body to get rid of the inflammation caused by gluten in your gut and pelvic tissues.

Compared with unheated mice, the animals with the faux fever had twice as many white blood cells migrating out of the blood vessels and into the lymph tissue that lines the skin and gut, which is where they need to be to attack incoming pathogens.

But the bottom line is that about two thirds of all T cells reside in the lymphoid tissue of the gut, where the virus spreads after exposure, even before it shows up in blood.

The authors propose that bacteria cross from the gut into the tissue of the intestinal wall, triggering inflammation that promotes tumor growth.

Measuring a few millimetres across, the pieces of intestinal tissue made by the month - long process contain all the cells and features found in normal gut tissue, and grow by the same route as in embryos.

«In contrast to past electrode designs, this fixed geometry allows accurate measurements that are fully comparable within and between experiments, and that tell us exactly how tissues like that of lung or gut mature within a channel, keep in shape and break down under the influence of drugs or other manipulations.»

Dr Grainger, a Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Fellow, explains what they found: «Our work shows that very soon after the toxoplasma invades the gut the tissue starts to communicate with other parts of the body to alter the immune system.

The researchers also focused on the two - way nature of the process: how gut dysfunction may worsen brain inflammation and tissue loss after TBI.

Deleting telomere elongation capacity throughout the body would also be life - threatening, because it would mean that our regular proliferating cells (like those in the skin or the lining of the gut) would suddenly have iron limits on their ability to reproduce themselves and thus replenish tissue.

Esrp1 and Esrp2 are active specifically in epithelial cells, which form the skin, the inner layers of the gut and lung, and other tissues in the body.

In 12 biopsies of his remarkably well - preserved gut tissue (and stomach contents), they were able to isolate enough bacterial DNA to sequence the genome of H. pylori to relatively high resolution, as they report online today in Science.

The team also discovered that Ötzi, who was in his 40s, had harbored the H. pylori long enough to have a gut reaction to the microbe — his tissue showed the expression of 22 proteins that are associated with inflammation.

Endotoxin (LPS) derived from gram - negative bacteria in the gut proliferating with high fat diet is translocated into the body and the endotoxin level in the blood is elevated to cause chronic inflammation of adipose tissues and the liver.

Moreover, she found, once the toxins are taken up by cells lining the mammalian gut, these sections become activated, setting in motion a chain of intracellular events that causes intestinal inflammation and tissue damage.

Switching Apc on again made the frenzied cells morph back into healthy gut tissue, which contains intestinal cells (below, green) and clusters of stem cells (below

Fluid flow on either side of the tissue mimicked the luminal and serosal surfaces of the gut within the body.

Or, in patients who've had part of the small intestine removed, tiny pieces of gut organoid tissue could be implanted and, after growing larger, connected to the intestine.

In 2009, Hans Clevers of the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, the Netherlands, announced that his lab unexpectedly created a miniature version of a gut while cultivating adult stem cells that the team had discovered in mouse intestinal tissue.

In this study, using a mouse transgenic approach, the scientists demonstrated that ILC2s express a checkpoint molecule, known as «PD - L1», that functions to control the expansion of allergy - inducing Th2 cells and the development of allergic pulmonary and gut tissue inflammation.

The particular pollen they found in the insects» guts, says paleobotanist Bill Chaloner of the University of London, was adapted for wind dispersal, and the bugs could have «inadvertently consumed the pollen while foraging for other plant tissue.»

A September 2002 follow - up study found no evidence for widespread transdifferentiation of blood - forming stem cells in brain, liver, kidney, gut and other tissues.

Her lab is now developing a model system for Parkinson's disease that includes brain, liver, and gastrointestinal tissue, which she plans to use to investigate the hypothesis that bacteria found in the gut can influence the development of Parkinson's disease.

Indeed, Shapiro and his colleagues demonstrated that the gas vesicles can be imaged with ultrasound in the guts and other tissues of mice.

The gut, the largest of the mucosal tissues, harbors most of the body's CD4 + T cells.

Those battalions of cells bombard tissues that make up the gut, liver, and skin, attacking them as «foreign.»

T. carneus» close relative, T. distinctus, also has similar sets of claws and sponge tissue in its guts.

About 150 are also found in internal tissues such as those of the heart, liver and gut, but they are hard to study.

With SABT2 as a marker, the researchers show BMP signaling is required for development of tissues specific to the posterior gut region of frogs and mice where the colon develops.

These steps are intended to crack open the biological material in the sample: from the comparatively massive eukaryotic cells of bat tissue, to simpler gut microbiota, to tiny viral particles.

Oral inoculation of mice with low doses of microencapsulated, noninfectious rotavirus induces virus - specific antibodies in gut - associated lymphoid tissue.

Using this «Ribotag» approach tissue - specific changes under DR have been measured in muscle, fat, gut, heart, neurons, germline and malpighian tubules, showing a highly tissue specific response upon DR.. We are developing mechanistic models of gene expression regulation and conducting comprehensive bioinformatics analyses on UTRs, promoters and the coding sequences of various elements of differentially regulated genes.

Induction of rotavirus - specific memory B cells in gut - associated lymphoid tissue after intramuscular immunization.

Distribution of rotavirus - specific memory B cells in gut - associated lymphoid tissue after primary immunization.

When bacteria slip out of the gut and reach other tissues, the body may overreact with a damaging inflammatory response.

The gut is an exceptionally rich world with many different species of micro-organisms interacting with each other and our human tissue.

They discovered that giving the mice antibiotics produced very different effects on their gut microbiomes, as well as on their insulin sensitivity, tissue inflammation and related metabolic functions such as blood glucose, depending on the genetic background of the mouse.

To better understand this complex tissues and its functions — and the diseases that affect it — a multicenter team led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital has released a census of the cells that make up the lining of the small intestine, using gene expression profiles of more than 53,000 individual cells from the mouse gut or gut organoid models.

The lining or epithelium of the gut is one of the body's most diverse and dynamic tissues, an ecosystem of cells that acts as one of the body's main interfaces with the outside world.

One new way that scientists study this process of cellular development — and a way in which they hope to grow replacement tissue for medical treatments in the future — is by recreating the essential features of human brains, eyes, lungs, and guts in a petri dish.

Adult stem / progenitor cells are present in many organs and tissues, e.g., bone marrow, teeth, heart, gut, kidney and liver, and remain quiescent for long period of time until activated by a disease or injury trigger.

ANN ARBOR, Mich — By combining engineered polymeric materials known as hydrogels with complex intestinal tissue known as organoids — made from human pluripotent stem cells — researchers have taken an important step toward creating a new technology for controlling the growth of these organoids and using them for treating wounds in the gut that can be caused by disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

The reservoir of latent HIV in the gut is poorly understood, especially because resting memory T cells in the gut are different than those in lymphoid tissues and blood.

To clarify whether peripheral tissues are responsible for the CCHa2 - dependent regulation of dilps in the brain, CCHa2 was specifically knocked down in the fat body and gut using targeted RNAi driven by the ppl - GAL4 driver [8][30].

gastroenterology A branch of medicine that deals with the tissues and diseases of the gut — those food - processing organs that include the stomach and intestines.

Thus, communication between peripheral organs, particularly from metabolic organs such as adipose tissues or the gut, and the brain is imperative for proper development and the maintenance of homeostasis.

These 45 variants are significantly enriched for protein - coding changes (n = 13), direct disruption of transcription - factor binding sites (n = 3), and tissue - specific epigenetic marks (n = 10), with the last category showing enrichment in specific immune cells among associations stronger in Crohn's disease and in gut mucosa among associations stronger in ulcerative colitis.