Sentences with phrase «recognized as invaders»

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This undigested gluten forms deposits on the intestinal walls, which the body recognizes as a foreign substance and sends the immune system into the area to «kill» this «foreign» invader.

There, archaeologists had dated the earliest settlements of the Hebrews — recognized by the lack of pig bones, reflecting their pork taboo — to perhaps the 13th century B.C. Had these people really been slaves in Egypt, returning as invaders as Yadin put forth?

When faced with an external threat such as an invading virus, Cas enzymes produce a kind of «most wanted» poster: They snip off bits of the invading viral DNA and stuff them into the spacers, where they can be used as RNA guides to recognize future invaders.

Each T cell, scientists believed, was programmed to recognize a particular snippet of protein, or peptide, unique to invaders such as bacteria, viruses or tumor cells.

«The immune system immediately recognizes this pattern as a foreign invader,» Bachmann says.

Rather, it makes them more visible to the immune system that recognizes them as foreigner invaders and eliminates them.»

It had been thought that the system had an Achilles heel because invaders that had acquired too many mutations could no longer be recognized as they did not match the stored sample closely enough.

The body recognizes the peptides as foreign invaders and, as a result, attacks the leukemia cells.

Environmental and genetic signals cue cells as they differentiate into the many lineages that recognize foreign antigens and fight off invaders

Consistent with other studies, they found that as early as 13 weeks of development, the fetus was producing a range of immune system cells, including dendritic cells, which recognize invaders and signal other immune cells to attack.

Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D., and his team study T cells — white blood cells responsible for recognizing and responding to foreign invaders, such as microbes.

The study results revolve around the ancient battle between the human immune system and bacterial invaders, where immune cells strive to recognize bacteria as the microbes work to evade them.

Furthermore, saturated fat has been shown to have numerous positive effects on health, such as improving liver health by encouraging the liver cells to get rid of their fat cells, improving the immune system's response by helping white blood cells to recognize and destroy invaders more effectively, enabling the absorption of fat - soluble vitamins by acting as their carriers, as well as improving hormonal activity by providing the building blocks for a variety of hormones that are essential to human health.

Loss of sufficient saturated fatty acids in the white blood cells hampers their ability to recognize and destroy foreign invaders, such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi.

Another problem with both gluten and dairy for people with autoimmune conditions is that when the immune system is in a state of confused hyperdrive, it can recognize the molecular structure of gluten or casein in dairy as an invader that needs attacking.

Once snapped on, patrolling white blood recognize the snapped - on antibody as a signal of trouble, and release chemicals that call for more white blood cells to rush in and destroy the invader.

The thyroid antibodies indicate that the thyroid gland has been recognized as a foreign invader by the immune system and that the thyroid gland is under attack.

These cells, along with dendritic cells, recognize the incoming undigested food particles, toxic agents, and bacterial components as foreign invaders, and present them to cells of the adaptive immune system called T and B lymphocytes, leading to clonal expansion (proliferation or multiplication of specific subsets of T and B cells) and recruitment of more pro-inflammatory immune cells to the gut through a process called leukocyte homing.

Once in the blood, our immune system recognizes these molecules as foreign invaders and mounts a reaction.

When it does, your body recognizes this macro molecule as an invader and attacks.

Sometimes, your body doesn't recognize certain processed foods as something beneficial, and reacts with an immune response - fighting off this unknown «invader».

• The immune system recognizes these fragments as foreign invaders and goes about destroying them.

Proteins may be combined or changed into substances recognized by the immune system as foreign invaders to be attacked.