Sentences with phrase «of inflammation of the lung»

This damage often comes in the form of inflammation of the lung tissue, known as pneumonitis.

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Inflammation of the lining of the lungs that causes spasms, resulting in shortness of breath.

There's also less risk of reflex which is when acid from the stomach comes back up the baby's throat and that acid can also be inhaled into the lungs and cause the same problem with inflammation in the lungs.

For example, one hundred percent of an apple's quercetin (an antioxidant that has been linked to lower inflammation levels as well as decreased risk of prostate and lung cancers) content is in its skin!

This infection can cause inflammation of the baby's lungs, spinal cord, or brain.

Other red flags are the presence of esophagitis (an inflammation in the esophagus that can result in blood in the spit - up) and respiratory or pulmonary problems, such as coughing, wheezing, asthma, or recurring pneumonia, caused by stomach contents that enter the nose, windpipe, or lungs.

Due to the inflammation of nasal passages or lungs, the inspirations will become in a few hours so quickened and hurried and are audible.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system attacks the body instead of defending it, causing inflammation that often results in serious damage to bones, joints and tendons, and can also affect internal organs like the heart, eyes and lungs.

E-cigarette vapors also «produced mild effects on the lungs, including inflammation and protein damage,» notes Thomas Sussan of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, lead author of the study, published February 4 in PLOS ONE.

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They discovered that in the young, more immune cells called monocytes were recruited to the lungs, and that the gene expression profiles of these cells had more inflammatory features, causing greater inflammation and more severe lung injury.

«We found that in young healthy mice the immune system overreacted to the influenza virus, which led to more inflammation, greater lung damage and increased mortality compared to healthy adults exposed to the virus,» says lead author Bria Coates, MD, Critical Care physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Specifically, the researchers found that a peptide, called STAT6 - IP, when delivered to the lungs of neonatal mice at the time of first RSV exposure reduces the development of allergic - type lung inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness («twitchy» airways) in mice when they are «re-challenged» with RSV as young adults.

The arthritis is accompanied or preceded by fever for at least two - weeks that is daily («quotidian») for at least 3 of those days, with one or more of the following symptoms: red rash (evanescent erythematous rash), enlarged liver, spleen or lymph nodes, and inflammation of the tissue lining (serositis) of the lungs, heart, or stomach.

There they could exacerbate asthma, bronchitis — an inflammation of the tubes that carry air to and from the lungs — and emphysema — a disease in which the lungs» many air sacs are destroyed, leaving patients short of breath.

Roughly 30,000 people in the United States suffer from cystic fibrosis, and despite research advances, many still die in early adulthood — nearly all of chronic lung inflammation prompted by P. aeruginosa.

The ability to counteract inflammation in the lungs by utilising the combined anti-inflammatory and reparative properties of MSCs could potentially reduce the inflammatory response in individuals with chronic lung disease whilst also restoring lung function in these patients.

A new study has found that stem cell therapy can reduce lung inflammation in an animal model of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cystic fibrosis.

Exactly how asthma begins and progresses remain a mystery, but a team led by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has uncovered a fundamental molecular cue that the nervous system uses to communicate with the immune system, and may potentially trigger allergic lung inflammation leading to asthma.

When the researchers examined mice with disrupted IL - 27 function, they found that they were more likely than normal mice likely to die when infected with the virus, and that they died as a consequence of rampant lung inflammation.

As well as reducing inflammation in the lung, MSC therapy also resulted in significant improvements in lung structure, suggesting that this form of treatment has the potential to repair the damaged lung.

«We were fascinated to find that, without the influence of Myb, Treg cells would allow the immune response to spin out of control, resulting in severe inflammation pretty much everywhere — whether in the lungs, liver, intestine or skin,» she said.

They were particularly interested in IL - 33, a gene linked to inflammation that is overexpressed in the lung tissue of asthmatics compared with people without the disease.

The findings, which are published in the journal Clinical Science, show that severe allergic lung inflammation was significantly reduced in the mice when the activity of the pro-inflammatory molecules interleukin (IL)-17 A and IL - 17F was prevented using specific antibodies.

Expression of CXCL16 was higher in the colon and lung tissue of GF mice than in normal mice, and blocking that expression reduced the numbers of iNKT cells and the amount of inflammation in those tissues.

Community - acquired pneumonia, a type of lung inflammation contracted outside of a hospital or nursing - home setting, is most often caused by infections with bacteria, such as Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus.

Both genetic mutations lead to poor mucus clearance from lungs, chronic lung infections, bouts of inflammation, and a decreased ability to breathe properly, among other symptoms.

The Children's Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC) concurs, citing a raft of studies that show how children living in wood - burning households experience «higher rates of lung inflammation, breathing difficulties, pneumonia, and other respiratory diseases.»

Neither of the breathing retraining interventions (exercises) improved lung function or airway inflammation, suggesting they were not affecting the underlying biology of the disease.

They found that infection of the narrowest airways of the lung by PIV3 alone caused moderate levels of inflammation, but after infection by PIV3 expressing RSV NS2, the epithelial cells lining the narrow airways were shed rapidly into the airway lumen.

The oxidative stress and resulting inflammation appear to play a role in the development of atherosclerosis (blocked arteries) and can make other health conditions worse, especially for people with existing cardiac or lung conditions including asthma.

Produced by tasks such as grinding concrete and sandblasting, used in the construction and other industries, crystalline silica dust can cause silicosis — an incurable disease involving inflammation of the lungs — and lung cancer.

Lupus is an autoimmune disorder characterized by periodic inflammation of joints, connective tissues and organs including heart, lungs, kidneys and brain.

«What we saw in mice lacking STIM1 — whose T - cells can not generate calcium signals — is that the number of mycobacteria in their lungs was dramatically increased, resulting in excessive inflammation,» says Stefan Feske, MD, an associate professor of pathology at NYU Langone and the study's senior author.

They have identified a «checkpoint» manned by these immune cells that, if barred, can halt the development of the lung inflammation associated with allergies.

The lung, for example, has proved highly sensitive to inflammation, and experimental animals have survived only a handful of days.

Cook - Mills had done previous allergy research in mice showing alpha - tocopherol decreased lung inflammation, protecting healthy lung function and gamma - tocopherol increased lung inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness, a characteristic of asthma.

Kheradmand and her graduate student Ms. Ran You found that this form of carbon black caused double - stranded breaks in the cell's DNA, a state that is very difficult to repair, and activates T helper 17 cells, inducing chronic inflammation in the lungs.

A large new Northwestern Medicine ® study upends our understanding of vitamin E and ties the increasing consumption of supposedly healthy vitamin E-rich oils — canola, soybean and corn — to the rising incidence of lung inflammation and, possibly, asthma.

In 2012 research, she identified a mechanism for gamma - tocopherol increasing lung inflammation: protein kinase C - alpha, which binds both forms of vitamin E. Alpha - tocopherol inhibits the action of the protein and gamma - tocopherol increases the action of the protein.

Dr Richard Booton, Consultant Respiratory Physician at the North West Lung Centre and senior lecturer at the University's Institute of Inflammation and Repair who led the study, said: «We wanted to see if there were any differences between patients aged less than 70 years old and those older than 70, in terms of both the safety of the technique and how useful it was for diagnosis.

Studying the effects of oxygen - sensing proteins in immune cells is especially relevant for patients who often have low levels of oxygen in their body and chronic lung inflammation.

Researchers at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton and McMaster University have successfully tested an antibody that can improve the quality of life for individuals with asthma by relieving inflammation in the lungs.

Established by AllerGen in 2005, the Clinical Investigator Collaborative is globally unique in its ability to undertake early stage clinical trials to evaluate the efficacy of new molecules and compounds that treat inflammation in the lung.

Yet, to our surprise, this response significantly differs from the reaction to direct exposure of house dust mites in the lungs without prior skin inflammation.

The structure and composition of the erionite from both regions is practically identical, and samples from each place cause mesothelioma - associated changes and inflammation in cell culture and mouse lungs.

Dr. Bryan Yipp, assistant professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the Cumming School of Medicine and associate director of the Leaders in Medicine program, is investigating the mechanisms of lung pulmonary inflammation.

The microscopic, needle - like fibers of asbestos penetrate the lungs and get stuck in the surrounding mesothelial tissues, causing inflammation, scarring and, eventually, cancer.

Now, a multidisciplinary research team led by David Eckmann, MD, PhD, Horatio C. Wood Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and professor of Bioengineering in Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science, has found that when delivered by a microscopic transporter called a nanocarrier, steroids can access the hard - to - reach lung endothelial cells that need it most and are successful at preventing inflammation in mice.

Some people develop chemical pneumonitis, an inflammation of the lungs, from breathing in chemical fumes.