Sentences with phrase «produce mucus»

The hormones that control your menstrual cycle also make your cervix produce mucus — the gooey stuff on your cervix that comes out of your vagina as discharge.
Increased immune system sensitivity causes the lungs and airways to swell and produce mucus when exposed to certain triggers.
His or her nose may also begin to produce mucus.
She coughs once every few hours now and does not produce mucus, but it still sounds as though she's trying to cough something up.
Friendly bacteria help make vitamins and fatty acids, and they help produce mucus that lines the digestive system and protects it from infection and physical damage.
I've heard that raw milk doesn't produce mucus.
The villi are covered with absorptive enterocyte cells, along with goblet cells that produce mucus, which provide an additional layer of protection — and a potential barrier to the absorption of drugs taken orally.
Healthy corals produce mucus just like healthy humans do.
In a new study published in the journal Development, the KU Leuven researchers show that individual or small groups of cells from uterus biopsies can be made to grow into three - dimensional structures that show many of the features of the womb lining, including the ability to produce mucus.
Your body produces mucus in your airways, lungs, nose, digestive system and lots of other places.
We called twice explaining the coughing / producing mucus to the tech on the phone and they said these were normal reactions.

Not exact matches

While mucus is constantly being produced and degraded in a normal gut, the change in bacteria activity under the lowest - fiber conditions meant that the pace of eating was faster than the pace of production — almost like an overzealous harvesting of trees outpacing the planting of new ones.
Cervical mucus is a fluid that's produced by your cervix.
However according to Dr. Gowri Motha (my new guru on pregnancy and birth along with Ina May) I can help it get better by cutting out mucus producing foods.
If you're dehydrated, your body can't produce enough saliva and mucus to keep the throat naturally lubricated, making the swelling and inflammation of a sore throat worse.
This happens when glands in your nose, throat, and airways produce too much mucus, or the mucus is not easily cleared.
If the stools are healthy and formed and the child is not producing a superabundance of mucus, then their diet is probably not too far out of line.»
When your baby becomes sick, his airways become irritated and his body produces an excessive amount of mucus.
Learning to blow his nose may take some practice, but once your child knows how, he can help his body get rid of all the extra mucus it's producing while he has a cold.
To protect themselves against against predatory birds, some slugs have evolved to produce a defensive mucus that secures them to virtually any surface.
Produced in salivary glands, saliva is 98 % water, but it contains many important substances, including electrolytes, mucus, antibacterial compounds and various enzymes.
Sometimes mucus is produced.
The mutation causes a person's lungs to produce a thick, viscous mucus that leads to infection, inflammation, and, eventually, lung failure.
The researchers found that feeding the rodents one type of intestinal worm restored their mucus - producing cells to normal.
During the 2008 relapse, the researchers found that immune cells in tissues with active colitis produced large quantities of an inflammatory signaling molecule named interluekin - 17 (IL - 17), but very little IL - 22, the latter of which has been linked to wound healing and mucus production.
Dolphins produce clicking noises to echolocate prey thanks to lumps of mucus - covered tissue in their nasal passage, new models suggest.
Along with intestinal stem cells, the team identified differentiated nutrient - digesting and absorbing enterocytes, mucus - producing Goblet cells, hormone - secreting enteroendocrine cells, and microbiome - regulating and sensing Paneth cells, and they performed a series of assays that confirmed their functions.
A model of the dolphin vocal apparatus shows that they need a coating of mucus to produce their distinctive sounds.
A defective gene and its protein product cause the body to produce unusually thick, sticky mucus that clogs the lungs and leads to life - threatening lung infections and obstructs the pancreas and stops natural enzymes from helping the body break down and absorb food.
But when the researchers added a phage that targets E. coli to the cultures, survival rates skyrocketed for the mucus - producing cells.
A defective gene and its protein product cause the body to produce unusually thick, sticky mucus that clogs the lungs and leads to life - threatening lung infections, obstructs the pancreas and stops natural enzymes from helping the body break down and absorb food.
This keeps the phages in the mucus, where they have access to bacteria, and suggests that the viruses and the mucus - producing tissue have adapted to be compatible with each other, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Once the unsuspecting critter is close, the octopus grabs it and traps it within a mucus web produced by glands on its arms.
In goblet cell metaplasia, exposure to allergens such as pollen, mold and dust mites initiates a series of biochemical reactions that causes the cells that line the air passages of the lungs to change from their normal state into so - called «goblet cells,» which produce substantial amounts of excess mucus.
The lips produce huge amounts of mucus, and can close to form a sort of straw.
Over 95 % of colorectal cancers are adenocarcinomas, a type of tumor that originates in the mucus - producing glands of the colon or rectum.
Gland cells produce the secretions that constitute many common types of bodily fluid, including semen, mucus, and saliva.
Those plants indeed might have detected the mucus and produced chemicals to defend themselves from attack.
Most of the time you don't even notice the flow; you usually swallow mucus produced in your nose and sinuses without even thinking about it.
Whether it's a rich and sugary coffee drink (perhaps made with mucus - producing soy or dairy... erm), gluten - y breads, chips, sweets, or some other fix, this full moon wants you to try banishing it from your diet.
A pulmonary embolism comes with sudden shortness of breath, chest pain, and coughing that produces blood - tinged mucus.
The average person produces 1 to 1.5 mL of mucus a day, and that's healthy since it protects our bodies by trapping foreign objects.
It all depends on the type of virus or irritant activating the body's mucus - producing tissues, explains Chandra Ivey, MD, a private - practice laryngologist and assistant clinical professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
NAC (N - acetyl cysteine) and selenocysteine (a safer anirmal form of selenium combined with cysteine) can help your body produce more glutathione which is also good for immune function and helps to break up mucus.
These medicines are not recommended for a phlegm - producing cough because coughing is the body's way of expelling excess mucus.
The microbes in our intestines do not colonize the tight inner layer of the mucus barrier, but as enzymes that we and our bacteria produce break down the sugar and protein backbones of the barrier, a loose outer layer is formed that supports a diverse population of microbes.
Coughing may produce clear, slimy phlegm, or the mucus may be white, yellow, or green.
The colonic mucus barrier is produced by specialized cells in our gut epithelium lining that secrete mucin.
Most of these bacteria live on mucus membranes like the one lining our mouth, and they protect us from disease - causing bacteria like the ones that produce acid which can be damaging to teeth.
While mucus is constantly being produced and degraded in a normal gut, the change in bacteria activity under the lowest - fiber conditions meant that the pace of eating was faster than the pace of production — almost like an overzealous harvesting of trees outpacing the planting of new ones.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z