Sentences with phrase «own immune systems attack»

Autoimmune disorders run in his family: His mom suffers from Hashimoto's disease, in which the immune system attacks the thyroid gland.

When you eat foods contain any of those ingredients, the immune system attacks the fingerlike projections of tissue called villi.

An estimated 12 million people in the United States have food allergies, and an additional 2 million have celiac disease, a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks itself when exposed to gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye.

It's believed to play a role in the prevention of cancer and disorders that are caused by the body's own immune system attacking itself.

In patients with celiac disease, the presence of the protein gluten from wheat, barley or rye triggers an immune system attack, damaging the villi in the small intestine.

Or, the intended mother could suffer from a condition called recurrent pregnancy loss wherein her body's immune system attacks the fetus as it would a harmful virus and causes her to miscarry the pregnancy.

* CD4 cells are a component of the immune system attacked by HIV.

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.

In the present study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general.

For unknown reasons our immune system attacks healthy cells, tissues and organs in a process called autoimmunity, which can result in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.

That hyper - response, Miller theorizes, is not unlike what's seen in autoimmune diseases, where the inflammation provoked by an immune system attack proves far more damaging than any pathogen itself.

They also found AXIN2 in the damaged nerve cells of adults with multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the immune system attacks myelin.

A DNA vaccine's tolerizing effect could potentially be used to combat autoimmune diseases — such as some forms of diabetes and arthritis — in which the immune system attacks and destroys its own tissues.

In the malady, a victim's immune system attacks hormone - producing organs such as the pancreas and the thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal glands, often rendering them nonfunctional.

Blood from people affected by the 2014 Zika outbreak in French Polynesia provides the first evidence that the virus can make the immune system attack nerve cells

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES Scientists doing gene editing need to be aware of potential immune system attacks against a DNA - cutting protein.

Scientists have discovered the first example of a gene solely responsible for an autoimmune disease, a type of disorder in which the immune system attacks the body.

There was another intriguing connection: Acinetobacter are molecular mimics of proteins found in myelin, the nerve cell coating that the immune system attacks in MS.. That suggests the bacteria might trigger immune attacks that hit myelin, too, as when soldiers who inadvertently resemble the enemy get hit by friendly fire.

Type 1 diabetes, which usually starts in childhood, is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body's own beta cells.

Their findings suggest that therapies based on these compounds could help to treat rheumatoid arthritis, which occurs when the immune system attacks the joints, causing pain and swelling.

SjS is an immune mediated chronic inflammatory disease where the body's immune system attacks glands that secrete fluid, such as the tear and saliva glands.

Balance impairment is one of the most common and disabling symptoms of MS, a disease of the central nervous system in which the body's immune system attacks the protective sheath around nerve fibers.

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune condition in which the immune system attacks the joints, causing inflammation, pain, and eventually destruction of the tissues that make up this essential body part.

In particular the immune system attacks the mucosa of the small intestine, so it weakens and loses its capability to absorb nutrients properly.

The faulty nerve signaling that underlies the disease is thought to stem from the body's own immune system attacking and degrading the axons» myelin sheaths.

Islet autoimmunity, detected by antibodies that appear when the immune system attacks the islet cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, is a precursor to type 1 diabetes.

Otulipenia is one of several inflammatory diseases that occur when the immune system attacks the host's own tissues.

In type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks and destroys insulin - producing cells in the islets of the pancreas.

First, the immune system develops antibodies that attack the body's own DNA, then that activated immune system attacks the kidneys,» Mohan said.

MS is just one of many debilitating diseases caused by auto - immune reactions, where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues.

In type 1 diabetes, a person's immune system attacks and destroys the pancreatic beta cells that produce insulin.

The findings upend the long - held scientific belief that only cells, known specifically as dendritic cells, infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis could stimulate a broader, defensive immune system attack of the invading microorganism.

But when he injected the mice with genetically identical reprogrammed stem cells, their immune systems attacked, destroying the cells.

However, in several chronic human diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), HIV / AIDS, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, the immune system attacks these normally beneficial bacteria, resulting in chronic inflammation and contributing to disease progression.

As such, scientists hypothesise that cathelicidins may be involved in the control of type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease where certain cells in the immune system attack beta cells in the pancreas which secrete insulin.

If the dendritic cells are in an environment with microbes or tissue inflammation, they tell the T cells to start an immune system attack.

Kwak has developed anti-cancer therapeutic vaccines to spark an immune system attack against tumors, but their effectiveness has been hindered by factors such as MDSCs that stifle immune response.

But when we get sick, the T cells loosen their hold to let the immune system attack invading pathogens.

Now, in a study recently published in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of scientists from VCU Massey Cancer Center have shown a genetic relationship between the reactivation of hCMV and the onset of graft - versus - host disease (GVHD), a potentially deadly condition in which the immune system attacks healthy tissue following a bone marrow or stem cell transplant.

In some cases, the microbes might even be calling in immune system attacks on their competitors, Rawls said.

The immune system is responsible for protecting the host from foreign pathogens; however, there are many diseases — known as autoimmune diseases — that result from the immune system attacking the host.

But those early attempts routinely failed because, unless the donor was an identical twin, the host's immune system attacked the foreign stem cells before they became established.

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

The team say their findings could also shed light on how inflammation occurs in certain types of autoinflammatory diseases, where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues.

In type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks cells in the pancreas that make insulin.

Zika was known for 60 years as a mild virus that appeared sporadically, but since 2007, two troubling shifts have taken place, Dye said: Zika virus now results in widespread outbreaks of hundreds or thousands of cases, and it is associated with neurological disorders like microcephaly and Guillain - Barre syndrome, a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks the nerves.

As a result, the immune system attacks the affected pigmented cells.

What is clearly evident in the Swedish health care registers is the fact that those who lack a thymus have an increased incidence of autoimmune diseases in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissue; Type 1 diabetes; thyroid disease; rheumatic disease; and hypersensitivity to gluten.

In type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks the body's own insulin - producing cells.

Encephalitis caused by the immune system attacking the brain is similar in frequency to encephalitis from infections, Mayo Clinic researchers report in Annals of Neurology.