Sentences with phrase «other immune system changes»

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«That lick transfers bacteria that live in animals» mouths, and the exposure to the bacteria may change the way the child's immune system responds to other allergens.»

If other possible illnesses have been ruled out, steroids or other medicines that change the immune system response may be used to treat refractory sprue that doesn't respond to a gluten - free diet.

Some foods are safe and others are not safe during pregnancy because changes in hormones can cause a woman's immune system to become suppressed.

In cancer patients with weakened immune systems, changing certain amino acids in the flu virus's hemagglutinin protein (illustrated) made the virus better able to compete with other virus variants.

«Certain flu virus mutations may compensate for fitness costs of other mutations: Unexpected mutations help flu virus retain fitness by counteracting changes needed to dodge the immune system.»

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that even a brief episode of immune system activation within days of birth can cause persistent changes in sleep patterns concurrent with increases in epilepsy - like brain activity — a combination of symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.

The other is changes in the immune system, Swanton says.

Integrated systems biology approaches can identify gene regulatory networks, such as immune, stress and other regulatory responses, and link them with physiologic states.6 This bioinformatics approach provides an unbiased view of the immune system profile, and can be linked to changes in environmental conditions.7 These network approaches, while often applied to identifying disease profiles, can be used to identify salutary states as well, such as that which might result from intensive meditation.

When asked how the recent findings relate to the other research in which his lab is engaged, Dr. Apte explained, «My laboratory has a strong interest in understanding the programmatic changes that occur with aging and lead to immunosenescence [age - related deterioration of the immune system] and neurodegeneration.

When corn, soy, or other foods are genetically modified, this will change the DNA, and the immune system sees the proteins in these foods as foreign.

Other influences are weakened immune systems or drugs that change hormones levels.

And the key is in my opinion that really helps is we're building up the immune system by making the diet, the lifestyle changes, supporting the adrenals and / or other hormonal imbalances before we go after the infection.

I have found that by boosting my immune system, as well as making other positive changes in my life, I overcame the disease.

In fact, only about 50 % of people infected with HIV develop AIDS, which indicates that other people who have also been infected with the virus have not had AIDS because they have a strong immune system due to positive diet and lifestyle changes.

Work by Nedergaard and others has changed that in recent years, but a lot of confusion about how the brain and the immune system communicated remained, since there seemed to be no direct access.

And, given that travel frequently can involve a change of time zones, lack of sleep, eating out a lot, air travel, and other stressors that we would not encounter in the familiar routine of home, our immune system is likely not firing on all cylinders during that time away either.

Its ability to change the anatomy of the juvenile insect also leaves these organisms more vulnerable to other treatments as well as the dog's own immune system cells.

However, research on laboratory mice documents changes in immune system function with pinworm infestation, so a finding of pinworms along with diarrhea, weight loss, unthriftiness or other illness merits treatment.

Chronic exposure to other stress hormones can also weaken the immune system and even change the structure of chromosomes.