Sentences with phrase «other immune system diseases»

Carol A: Carol - Modified live vaccines probably confer adequate immunity without being repeated as long as there are no maternal antibodies or other immune system diseases interfering with the action of the vaccine.

Examples of these costs could be autoimmunity and other immune system diseases such as chronic inflammation.

Not exact matches

«When your brain is firing off these synapses of anger, you're weakening your immune system; you're raising your blood pressure, increasing your risk of heart disease, obesity and diabetes, and a plethora of other negative ailments,» he says.

The next interesting question coming down the pike is: We're all focused on cancer, but what other disease indications does the immune system have a role in?

One that is probably not already mentioned here: Because tattoos are a result of injecting foreign chemicals into your body, they undermine the immune system, which is a great way to increase the possibility of getting cancer and other diseases.

One of the key benefits of vitamin C is that it helps to keep our immune system strong, supporting our body's defence against infections, diseases and other illnesses.

A complete cure is more likely if you have a healthy immune system and are free of other diseases.

Follow recommendations to separate your child from others, including family members — especially newborn babies, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems or chronic diseases.

Physiologic sleep studies have found that breastfed infants are more easily aroused from sleep than their formula - fed counterparts.247, 248 In addition, breastfeeding results in a decreased incidence of diarrhea, upper and lower respiratory infections, and other infectious diseases249 that are associated with an increased vulnerability to SIDS and provides overall immune system benefits from maternal antibodies and micronutrients in human milk.250, 251 Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months has been found to be more protective against infectious diseases compared with exclusive breastfeeding to 4 months of age and partial breastfeeding thereafter.249

When children are not vaccinated, they are at increased risk for diseases and can also spread these diseases to others in their classrooms and community — including babies who are too young to be fully vaccinated, and people with weakened immune systems due to cancer or other health conditions.

When children are not vaccinated, they are at increased risk and can spread diseases to other in their family and community — including babies who are too young to be vaccinated, and people with weakened immune systems due to cancer and other health conditions.

In genetically susceptible hosts, the inability to develop the immune system properly can have negative consequences like inflammatory bowel disease or any other kinds of complex immune disorders.»

The stocks are helping the development of new countermeasures such as drugs, vaccines and diagnostics in case smallpox should reappear, and may also allow researchers to explore the impact of smallpox on the human immune system, providing insights into other diseases such as AIDS.

In other words, bacterial prions, could boost bacteria's ability to cause disease, evade immune system surveillance and elude drugs.

Prof. Khatri and his team studied the way the immune system responds to infection by looking at gene expression — which genes are active and which are not — and whether there are differences in patients with malaria compared to other infectious diseases.

A total AIDS cure is still not quite here, but researchers are getting remarkably close — and the quest has upended our understanding of the immune system and laid the groundwork for solutions to hundreds of other diseases.

«Our study reveals a new mechanism that could be harnessed for biological therapies for lupus and other autoimmune diseases, where the immune system mistakenly targets the body's own cells,» says senior study author Boris Reizis, PhD, professor of Pathology and Medicine at NYU Langone.

«Healthy gut bacterial communities are known to benefit immune regulation, metabolism and potentially even the nervous system, so if cholera or other diarrheal diseases permanently impact the microbiota, there could be long - term effects on human health,» explains Regina LaRocque, MD, MPH, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Infectious Diseases, co-senior author of the paper.

University of Adelaide researchers have developed a new theory for the causes of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases, involving an out - of - control immune system.

«Like zebrafish, we have this rich source of gut microbes that have figured out how to coexist with us and soothe the immune system,» she says, adding that «there is enormous potential to harness those mechanisms» to address ailments such as inflammatory bowel disease and other chronic inflammation.

Chronic inflammation — ongoing heightened activity of the immune system — on the other hand, has been linked to many diseases, including asthma, diabetes, and heart disease.

Immunologists and oncologists are harnessing the body's immune system to fight cancers and other diseases with adoptive cell transfer techniques.

It is also important to note that HIV research may lead to advances in the treatment of other viral infections, as well as cancers, metabolic diseases (diabetes, high cholesterol) and other immune system disorders.

Monitoring immune cell activity — including phenotyping immune cell subsets, tracking cell proliferation, and measuring cytokine production — can provide insights into the overall status of immune function in patients, particularly those undergoing immunosuppression after transplants, enduring cancer treatment, or suffering from autoimmune disease or other pathologies that affect the immune system.

In respiratory distress syndrome, and possibly other lung diseases, the immune system overreacts to trauma or infection.

The trouble is that the virus targets not only the lymphocyte cells, which include T cells — a key component of the body's immune system helping to fight diseases — but also other immune system cells.

The scientists said the finding strengthens the theory that dark - skinned people who migrate northward from low - latitude, tropical areas with stronger sunlight produce less vitamin D; deficiencies in this vitamin can weaken the bones and immune system, inviting TB and other diseases.

Dr. Ernst says that if such an antigen transfer system works to boost the immune response in TB, then a similar bypass mechanism could also be at work in other infectious diseases in which the invading microorganism has developed means to evade the immune system.

In Graves» eye disease, the immune system attacks muscles and other tissues around the eye.

These are skills that we implement for other international trials of gene therapy for rare genetic diseases of the immune system, blood, muscle, vision or liver... We will continue the current study with the objective of providing treatment for patients.»

Now, a new study shows that at least one of their fears — that vaccines overload the immune system and increase susceptibility to other diseases — is unfounded.

The PDD substance has been used in previous trials with people with the aim of improving the response of their immune system to other diseases.

Depression is associated with a multitude of pathological processes, including inflammation of the peripheral immune system, a set of biological structures and processes in the lymph nodes and other tissues that protect against disease and abnormalities involving synapses, the structures that permit neurons to pass an electrical or chemical signal to other neurons.

In asthma and other allergic diseases, the immune system overreacts to minor threats — kind of like killing a mosquito with a bazooka.

In addition to poaching and cutting down trees for fuel, people are over-exploiting medicinal plants in the search for affordable means of treating the diarrhoea and other diseases that take hold as HIV weakens the immune system.

As this regulation mechanism mediated by the immune system also plays an important role in other diseases such as leukemia, these findings could lead to novel therapeutic approaches.

Hijacking of the immune system has been demonstrated before in other infectious diseases, such as dengue virus.

For example, when the researchers decoded the complete sequence of one extrachromosomal circular phage from a disease - causing Staphylococcus, they identified a number of genes that may help this strain evade a host's immune system and that could readily spread to other Staphylococcus bacteria.

The researchers don't know yet whether the viruses have a positive or negative effect on overall health but speculate that in some cases, they may keep the immune system primed to respond to dangerous pathogens while in others, lingering viruses increase the risk of disease.

It turns out that rituximab can also work for diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune conditions in which overactive B cells in the immune system contribute to the inflammation and degradation of healthy tissue.

This also includes individuals with stress, chronic infections, poor diets, inadequate sleep, and other conditions that can weaken the immune system and increase the risk of disease in the future.

Patients with metastatic melanoma, or melanoma that has spread to other parts of the body, often have a poor prognosis, and while some forms of immunotherapy — treatments that boost the body's immune system to fight disease — are promising, response rates are less than 35 percent.

It is also applicable to other diseases involving the immune system, such as autoimmune diseases, allergies and infections.

This novel approach, which reveals complex interactions between cells and proteins, can also be used for other diseases to generate new knowledge about the regulation and dysregulation of the immune system, which can eventually give rise to new, improved immunological therapies.

The RTM hypothesis is that the immune systems of people who reach the ages at which AS, beta - amyloid, and other pathological aggregates begin to accumulate would generate antibodies against their abnormal form, and that people who remain free of these specific diseases might be producing antibodies that are particularly effective at keeping these aggregates at bay.

This same approach is now being tested in clinical trials for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune diseases in the hope that providing brand new blood cells will reset the immune system to a healthy state.

The decline of the immune system with age (immunosenescence) is reflected in the increased susceptibility to infectious diseases, poorer response to vaccination, increased prevalence of cancer, accelerated aging (frailty), autoimmune and other chronic diseases.

The exact cause of eczema is unknown, but it's thought to be linked to an overactive response by the body's immune system to allergens and irritants, similar to other allergic diseases such as asthma and food allergy.

Other critical factors to consider include the mucosal immune system and the potential impact of a tolerogenic microenvironment on the development and progression of disease.

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.