Sentences with phrase «produces white cells»

When faced with an infection or allergen, the body produces white cells to fight it.

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The white blood cells produce an enzyme that destroys the surface of the follicle allowing the bacteria to enter the skin layer causing inflammation of the skin.

According to WebMD, «Inflammation is a process by which the body's white blood cells and substances they produce protect us from infection with foreign organisms, such as bacteria and viruses.»

The cells of black people are able to produce more calcium than the cells of white people...

A study shows, for the first time, how these functional impairments arise: Social isolation during early life prevents the cells that make up the brain's white matter from maturing and producing the right amount of myelin, the fatty «insulation» on nerve fibers that helps them transmit long - distance messages within the brain.

If the tumor that Jobs had removed in 2004 had begun to break down prior to the surgery, White says, the tumor's dead cells could have released protease and lipase enzymes that may have damaged beta cells in the pancreas, which produce insulin.

Two groups had their immune systems altered to produce fewer macrophages, the white blood cells that attack pathogens.

«Tumor cells often produce suppressive factors which essentially turn the brakes on tumor - killing white blood cells.

Thinking that A20 was only produced in a few tissues, researchers at the University of Chicago originally set out to pinpoint A20's function in certain white blood cells in the intestine.

When exposed to cold, clusters of cells within the body's white fat become beige — a color change that reflects the creation of more energy - producing mitochondria, cellular components that enable cells to burn calories and give off heat.

Healthy plasma cells produce antibodies that fight infection in the body, but myeloma cells produce high levels of abnormal antibodies that, when the cancer cells accumulate, they crowd out production of other important blood cells, both red and white.

Unlike humans, who use their lymphatic systems to produce and transport white blood cells, tuna use theirs to move two of their fins, researchers report today in Science.

The enzyme is produced by white blood cells called neutrophils, which play an important role in inflammatory and immune responses and may be a key contributor to the development of muscular dystrophy.

He determined that a compound produced by the mold, which he called penicillin, could kill pathogenic bacteria but not white blood cells or human tissue.

And the cells in our body differ from one another — serving as neurons, white blood cells, smell sensors, and so on — largely because they activate different sets of genes and thus produce different mixtures of proteins.

First author Kim Martinod, a graduate student in the Immunology Graduate Program at the Harvard University Medical School, found that, in response to vein constriction, these «rescued» mice now could function normally, forming clots as efficiently as mice with a functioning Pad4 gene, demonstrating that the Pad4 gene did produce a functioning PAD4 enzyme in these white blood cells to regulate blood clotting.

The team's previous research had shown that the white blood cells responsible for inflaming arterial walls also produce ozone and, ultimately, the atheronals: atheronal - a and atheronal - b.

When the body encounters an infection, a molecular signaling system ramps up the body's infection - fighting system to produce more white blood cells to attack invading bacteria.

S. mansoni IPSE binds to Immunoglobulin E (IgE), an antibody produced by the immune system that is expressed on the surface of basophils, a type of immune cell; and mast cells, another immune cell that mediates inflammation; and sequesters chemokines, signaling proteins that alert white cells to infection sites.

Fibrin is an insoluble protein produced by platelets (fragments of white blood cells) from a soluble protein called fibrinogen normally present in blood.

These white blood cells might also be involved in CFS, by producing antibodies that...

The body can only create a finite number of antibody - producing white blood cells in a given time period.

Some of the IgE - related genes were known to encode proteins produced by eosinophils, a type of white blood cell that promotes inflammation in asthma sufferers» airways.

It also produces some white blood cells.

They found that the difference may lie in the tendency of males to produce higher levels of white blood cells that encourage inflammation, which contributes to the negative health consequences of obesity such as insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes.

The new technique, pioneered by Wilson and fellow researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, saves time by using antibodies produced by so - called B cells (white blood cells that produce and then ferry them to infection sites to battle invading germs) in response to vaccines instead of to actual infections.

Compared to skinnies, muscular men also tended to produce fewer infection - fighting white blood cells and less of an important immune molecule called C - reactive protein, which helps destroy pathogens.

This is clear from the fact that the third drug in the study, sodium nitroprusside, does not affect endothelial cells, but still produced different effects in the veins of black people and white people.

The scientists at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have shown that immune system cells, which react to gluten, produce chemicals called cytokines that can contribute to the development of a rare form of lymphoma (cancer of the white blood cells).

Instead of producing healthy lymphocytes, white blood cells that fight infections, his bone marrow was unleashing abnormal lymphocytes into his bloodstream.

This relies on the ability of macrophages, types of white blood cell, to produce nitric oxide when they are exposed to cytokines.

Porphyrins in high levels are toxic, killing off the cells that produce them and turning the flatworms pale white.

Researchers carried out the study by chemically inhibiting the production of antibody - producing white blood cells (B lymphocytes) in broiler chicks, before introducing C.jejuni infection at the age of three weeks and then monitoring bacteria levels in the gut for the next nine weeks.

The researchers found that the mice responded to the parasite by shifting their immune system into high gear, producing large numbers of white blood cells.

It specifically affects antibody - producing white blood cells found in the bone marrow, called plasma cells.

During a viral infection, the body needs various defense mechanisms — amongst other things, a large number of white blood cells (leukocytes) must be produced in the bone marrow within a short period of time.

Researchers tracked how the epigenome changes after long - term exposure to cold temperatures, and how those changes cause energy - storing white fat cells to become heat - producing brown - like, or «beige,» fat cells.

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is characterized by a rapidly - developing cancer in the myeloid line of blood cells, which is responsible for producing red blood cells, platelets and several types of white blood cells called granulocytes.

One important communication chemical — called tissue factor — is produced by the blood vessels and by a type of white blood cells called monocytes.

Existing vaccination methods depend on stimulating the body's immune system, so that white blood cells produce antibodies that attach to the surface of the virus and start the process of killing it.

In a third of MDS cases, over time, very immature bone marrow cells called blasts may increase in number and fill the bone marrow, displacing the normal red and white blood cells and platelets that are produced there.

«These white markings occur not because the dogs can not produce pigment but because they completely lack pigment cells in the skin in the areas that have white markings», says Izabella Baranowska Körberg who obtained her PhD degree at SLU on a thesis in which this study was included.

Scientists thought it was only produced by certain types of white blood cells in a few tissues, such as the intestines and thymus.

It's secreted by the adipose tissue, largely, but also a number of other tissues have been shown to produce leptin, but the major source is the white adipose tissue which is basically fat cells.

Schulz demonstrated that with advancing age and a fat - enriched diet bone stem cells produce white fat rather than healthy bone tissue.

Schulz showed how stem cells produce white and brown fat and how white fat harms bone health in old age.

Tasigna is designed to treat Ph + CML by inhibiting the specific protein produced by the Philadelphia chromosome that is responsible for overproduction of white blood cells.

As more cancer cells are produced, they stop the healthy white blood cells from growing and functioning normally, by crowding out space in the blood.

For almost 30 years, Professor Metcalf doggedly and painstakingly pursued one task: identifying and purifying the hormones that stimulate blood cells to produce the white blood cells needed by the body to fight infection.

Aug. 3, 2017 — The histone deacetylase HDAC3 is required for the maturation of B cells, white blood cells that produce antibodies.