Sentences with phrase «of infection in the body»

Other inflammatory molecules that provoke the microglia are made by the white blood cells that gobble up bacteria and other sources of infection in the body.

Fluoride also blocks the migration of white blood cells to the site of infection in the body, damaging the immune system's ability to destroy pathogens.

It affects millions of children and adults annually and is the second leading cause of infection in the body (9).

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The testing showed that the fluid trapped in Delano's back had actually leaked from his lymphatic system — the network of tubes that keeps our body fluids in balance and helps us fight off infections.

AIDS: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy.

The nature of the relationship between malnutrition and infection is found in the fact that their interaction within the body is synergistic; that is, the effect of the presence of both of them at once is greater than the sum of the effects of malnutrition plus the effects of infection.

Numerous studies show garlic's amazing health potential in nearly every area of your body, from clogged arteries to gangrene to preventing insect bites and ear infections.

Well, the truth is, the cow industry is inhumane, (the overcrowded transportation conditions alone lead to to great suffering, severe cruelty and broken limbs), unhealthy (cows are pumped full of hormones, adrenalin from the fear from when they know they will be killed and anti-biotics — because the unhealthy conditions they live in promote infection and disease) and inefficient (cows must be fed 3 times the edible human grain than their bodies produce in meat).

Most fungal infections are linked to an imbalance of bacteria and fungal organisms in your body.

Often connected with candida, repeat fungal infections like ringworm and jock itch are linked to an imbalance of bacteria and fungal organisms in the body.

Pumpkin's bright orange colour is from its high concentration of carotenoids, which repel free radicals in the body and help prevent cardiovascular disease and other infections.

Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of childhood blindness, and also compromises the immune system, severely reducing the body's ability to ward off infections, especially in children.

As the largest organ in the body, it serves as a first line barrier to prevent infection, protects from injury, regulates our body temperature, and is a phenomenal mirror reflecting the state of internal health.

Children complaining of headaches could be due to them having an active infection — this can be found by either looking for the virus itself in the oropharynx or in the antibodies which the body naturally creates to fight infection.

This infection is caused by the fungus Candida albicans, a yeast that all of us have in our bodies.

Of course, your comments would then appear to be in rather poor taste, as they'd be appearing under a photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her baby son who died due to midwifery neglect and mismanagement and who would have lived if his infection had been diagnosed and treated appropriatelOf course, your comments would then appear to be in rather poor taste, as they'd be appearing under a photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her baby son who died due to midwifery neglect and mismanagement and who would have lived if his infection had been diagnosed and treated appropriatelof a woman weeping over the body of her baby son who died due to midwifery neglect and mismanagement and who would have lived if his infection had been diagnosed and treated appropriatelof her baby son who died due to midwifery neglect and mismanagement and who would have lived if his infection had been diagnosed and treated appropriately.

Thrush is a yeast infection caused by an overabundance of bacterial yeast present in the body.

Infants below six months are at the risks of being attacked by this malady because their lungs have not been fully developed to handle the strenuous impact of the infection and they can not manage the whooping effect in their body systems.

And if you're a nursing mom who is prone to getting yeast infections, this is a great product that can make a big difference in your body's ability to fight of this problem as well.

ROCHELLE MCLEAN: We all have yeast on our bodies at all times and your body has good bacteria that kind of keep your yeast in balance and yeast thrived in warm moisture environment so that we might end up with vaginal yeast infections, the breast feeding nipples are a great little party environment for yeast and the inside of baby's mouths.

He got (inaudible) which is a different form of hand for mouth and ended up with raw in his mouth and a very bad infection on top of the thrush because his body was not able to fight both of it at the same time.

Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a bacterium that can live in our bodies quite harmlessly but it can pose a problem for pregnant women because of the risk of passing it to your baby around labour and delivery which can cause serious infection.

Unable to fight any infection in my body, I had to be sure to pump milk regularly, because any plugged duct had the capability of endangering my life.

If your newborn baby has an infection, she may be taken to the special care nursery of the hospital, where she will be placed on a warming bed or in an incubator to regulate her body temperature.

Candida infection is not limited to the mouth; it can occur in other parts of the body as well, causing diaper rash in infants or vaginal yeast infections in women.

She started getting recurrent ear infections, skin infections, GI infections, bacterial pneumonia (she had pneumonia three times in less than six months), and an abscess in her skull.; she would also frequently lose weight (10 - 15 % of her body weight at times) and then have difficulty gaining it back.

In the body of any person there is a special protective mechanism that struggles with different viruses, infections and bacteria.

High levels of cortisol in the blood and separation from mother may negatively impact immune function as the body may stop producing leukocytes (infection fighting cells).

In addition to HPV infection, other factors that increase a woman's risk of developing cervical cancer include: not having regular Pap tests; not following up with your health care provider if you had a Pap test result that is not normal; having HIV (the virus that causes AIDS); having another condition that makes it hard for your body to fight off health problems; and smoking.

The researchers also report that saliva increased DENV infection of immune cells in the skin and enhanced immune cell migration to neighboring lymph nodes, which could promote the spread of disease throughout the body.

Current techniques for replacing lost bone usually rely on a painful, slow - healing bone graft from another part of the body, causing loss of bone density in the donor area and a secondary site of possible infection.

In a study published in the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders in the body and fight them off before they cause infectioIn a study published in the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders in the body and fight them off before they cause infectioin the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders in the body and fight them off before they cause infectioin the body and fight them off before they cause infection.

«If we learn how to control dendritic cells, we could strengthen our immune response to infection when needed, or weaken the action of certain immune cells that attack the body's own tissues in autoimmune disease.»

Mutations in the genes that defend the body against cancer - related viruses and other infections may play a larger role in breast cancer than previously thought, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The discoveries reported in two independent studies in the American Journal of Human Genetics on January 7 add to evidence for an important role for interspecies relations in human evolution and specifically in the evolution of the innate immune system, which serves as the body's first line of defense against infection.

To administer the drug systemically, they're working to design an injectable formulation that protects the peptide from breaking down in the body, makes it more selective, and directs it to the site of infection.

Infectious organisms trip specialized immune cells in the body and cause them to pump out proteins called cytokines, which produce inflammation and other hallmarks of infection, such as chills and fever.

For example, they were unable to tell where in the body the infection was located and whether or not participants had a current or past infection of Candida.

«If we can demonstrate that the body mounts an immune response to having an IUD placed, for example, then we could begin investigating whether an IUD can clear a persistent HPV infection in a clinical trial,» explains gynecologic oncologist and study coauthor Laila Muderspach, MD, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the Keck School.

Some scientists speculate that the placement of an IUD stimulates an immune response in the cervix, giving the body an opportunity to fight an existing HPV infection that could one day lead to cervical cancer.

«Because Candida is a natural component of the human body microbiome, yeast overgrowth or infection in the digestive tract, for example, may disrupt the gut - brain axis.

As well as revealing step by step how disease and infection can aggravate and accelerate the early stages of Alzheimer's, Perry and his colleague Clive Holmes have begun a pioneering trial in 40 people to see if a drug that acts to dampen inflammation in the body can help delay the progress of the brain disease.

The work was aided by the identification six years ago of a person in Africa whose HIV was diagnosed within weeks of infection and who provided blood samples to researchers periodically from the time of diagnosis, allowing researchers to examine in real time the co-evolution of the virus and the body's immune response.

Encased in bone and protected by a special layer of cells, it is shielded from infections and injuries — but also from many pharmaceuticals and even from the body's own immune defenses.

Healthy plasma cells produce antibodies that fight infection in the body, but myeloma cells produce high levels of abnormal antibodies that, when the cancer cells accumulate, they crowd out production of other important blood cells, both red and white.

Events that cause inflammation in the body, such as an infection or smoking, are likely to have a role, says Stephen Baylin, deputy director of the cancer centre at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

By studying infected cells grown in a laboratory, the team found that a large number of CMV's genes help it hide from the immune system by allowing it to destroy many of the proteins produced by the body during virus infection and preventing them from activating immune cells to destroy the virus.

Firstly, three disease - specific characteristics are important: the number of viruses present in the body, the diversity of the virus types found and the duration of an untreated HIV infection.

But they reasoned that they could help the body compensate with periodic injections of immunoglobulin, a cocktail of antibodies from thousands of blood donors used to fight infection in patients with compromised immune systems.

Therefore, they must explore the effects of deactivating it on the body's ability to fight infections and other diseases — as hampering the gene's effects only in red blood cells would be difficult.