Sentences with phrase «role in diseases like»

This relationship, know as neurovascular coupling, could play a major role in diseases like Alzheimer's.

Despite what you might have been told, we've known for some time that neurogenesis (the growth of new neurons in the brain) can occur in the hippocampus of the brain, which plays a critical role in diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia and influences emotional behavior and cognition.

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The plan, called 9000 Points of Care, laid out a framework that would see pharmacists treat more minor ailments, like cold sores, hay fever and back pain, administer more vaccines, and play a larger role in managing chronic conditions, like heart disease and diabetes.

Health experts agree that antioxidants play an important role in helping to support the immune system and fight off major diseases like cancer and heart disease.

It is believed that chronic inflammation plays a role in many diseases like heart disease, metabolic syndrome, Alzheimer, cancer and so on.

The high beta - carotene content of mango — evident in its vibrant orange flesh — is converted by your baby's body to vitamin A. Rich in anti-oxidants, mango helps boost the immune system and can play a role in preventing serious diseases like cancer and heart disease.

She and her colleagues will be exploring the role of YY1 further, using clinical samples as well as mouse models, to look at the protein in diseases like lupus to deepen their understanding of how autoimmunity could result from the «escape» of immune genes from X chromosome inactivation.

Rare stem - like tumor cells play a critical role in the spread of breast cancer, but a vulnerability in the pathway that powers them offers a strategy to target these cells using existing drugs before metastatic disease occurs, report University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center researchers.

Understanding the role of the microbes that live in the gut and help process nutrients not only promises a fuller understanding of the link between genes, diet and disease, but may also be a pathway to pinpointing the genes responsible for conditions like diabetes.

These symptoms are usually associated with diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease, which led us to believe autoimmunity plays a key role in the TB disease process.»

While axonal degeneration appears to be a major culprit in diseases like multiple sclerosis, it also paradoxically plays an important role in properly wiring the nervous systems of developing embryos.

«Studies like ours can help those working with these patients: awareness of the roles played by the different factors is in fact crucial for devising interventions aiming to minimise the effect of the deficits and restore normal weight levels in individuals who are already suffering because of the disease.»

Genomics studies like those commonly conducted with HeLa cells play an instrumental role in revealing how variation in genome sequence and function can lead to disease.

In addition to their role in ecosystems, amphibians also help humans by controlling insect populations — including the mosquitoes that spread diseases like Zika and dengue feveIn addition to their role in ecosystems, amphibians also help humans by controlling insect populations — including the mosquitoes that spread diseases like Zika and dengue fevein ecosystems, amphibians also help humans by controlling insect populations — including the mosquitoes that spread diseases like Zika and dengue fever.

Given that adipose tissue (which makes up between 15 and 20 % of the body weight in healthy people) is a source of inflammation in obese individuals, Christine Bourgeois and Olivier Lambotte, from the University Paris SUD, France, and colleagues, decided to investigate a possible role of the adipose tissue in humans infected with HIV and in macaques infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV, an HIV relative that causes AIDS - like disease in some non-human primates).

«Mosquito - borne viruses like Zika may be spread at lower temperatures, potentially expanding impact: Researchers play key role in pinpointing optimal temperature for mosquito - borne disease transmission.»

Almost 100 trillion microbes — some beneficial and some harmful — live in the human gastrointestinal tract at any time, helping to regulate immune function and inflammation, two factors hypothesized to play a role in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

He is now researching the role of the antigen - antibody complex receptor in auto - immune diseases like arthritis and lupus.

«We would also now like to broaden this research to see how much this process may play a similar role in other major human diseases.»

Fourth, the finding of intranuclear inclusions in diseased tissues, as well as direct visualization of adenoviral - like particles (TMAdV) in lung alveoli by electron microscopy (Figs. 1D - 2 to 1D - 4), support a primary role for TMAdV in the pathogenesis of tissue injury in affected monkeys.

While Mafra - Neto acknowledges that mosquitoes play a small role in the food chain, helping sustain small animals like fish and spiders, he would like to see fewer of them around, particularly in disease - ravaged countries.

To this aim we generated new conditional knockout mouse strains, which are currently analyzed to unravel the mechanism of a recently discovered unexpected protective role of TNFSF14 / LIGHT by our lab in an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)- like mouse model.

It is becoming apparent that other key members of the microbiome like fungi and viruses may play a key role in human health and disease [31] and understanding these dynamics will be imperative if we are to improve these conditions.

Michael Rae discusses the role of senescent cells in the brain during aging, and how eliminating those cells could prevent diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Its phosphorylation plays a pivotal role in normal physiology while its hyperphosphorylation occurs in neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's disease, Pick's disease and FTDP - 17.

We would like to cordially invites you to a leture on Role of RING Domain E3 Ligases in Health and Disease by prof. Claudio Joazeiro, PhD.

The goal of our current studies is to understand the role of nitric oxide (and other markers in exhaled breath) in lung physiology and in the pathophysiology of lung diseases like pulmonary hypertension and asthma.

Like in many other chronic illnesses, stress seems to play a large role when it comes to inflammation and autoimmune disease.

«The microbiome can even play a role in stress - related diseases of the central nervous system, like depression and anxiety.

These cells play a huge role in our inflammatory response, and shutting them down could help us treat inflammatory disease like IBS and arthritis.

It's often suspected that a chronic overgrowth in the gut is frequently misdiagnosed as diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome and that it might play a significant role in inflammatory bowel diseases like ulcerative colitis.

She conducts clinical trials to expand research on the role of diet in diseases like MS and developed her plan to reverse MS into a book, The Wahls Protocol.

Free radicals are thought to play a large role in the development of many well - known chronic and degenerative diseases like atherosclerosis, cancer, Alzheimer's Disease, asthma, and autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis.

Research is also looking at our intestinal bacteria for the beneficial role it can play in attenuating inflammation, playing a preventative role in heart disease, inflammatory bowel disease and allergies, and improving mental health issues like anxiety and depression.

Many scientists have speculated that this can drive increased inflammation and may play a role in the pandemics of chronic diseases like heart disease and others (7).

• However, there's growing evidence that high - protein food choices do play a role in health — and that eating healthy protein sources like fish, chicken, beans, or nuts in place of red meat (including processed red meat) can lower the risk of several diseases and premature death.

Vitamin A is key to almost every process in the body — the concert master, so to speak — not only for protein synthesis, but also for hormone production (including sex hormones like testosterone, and thyroid hormone); vitamin A is also key to immune system function, critical for healthy vision and hearing, plays a role in bone health, and works in tandem with vitamins D and K2 for everything from the prevention of heart disease to the production of feel - good chemicals.

Mounting research indicates the bacterial colonies residing in your gut may play key roles in the development of cancer, asthma, allergies, obesity, diabetes, autoimmune diseases and even brain, behavioral and emotional problems like ADHD, autism and depression.

Hormones also have a significant role in many diseases, like cancer and depression.

Other Benefits of Pomegranate: Anti-inflammatory: Like many chronic degenerative diseases, inflammation plays a significant role in cardiovascular disease pathogenesis.

Vitamin E is a potent antioxidant that plays a role in the prevention of diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular disease, and prostate cancer.15 Conventional health experts advise getting vitamin E from vegetable oils like cottonseed oil, because people do not eat vitamin E-rich foods on a daily basis.16 It is also believed that vitamin E contributes to the long shelf - life of cottonseed oil.17

In this master class, we explore the gut and the role it plays in the development and treatment of chronic infections like Lyme DiseasIn this master class, we explore the gut and the role it plays in the development and treatment of chronic infections like Lyme Diseasin the development and treatment of chronic infections like Lyme Disease.

Free radicals may play a role in cancer, heart disease, and conditions like arthritis.

Studies also confirmed artificial sweeteners like aspartame, Sucralose, Splenda and many others may play a role in the development of Alzheimer's disease.

To do so I would like to return to my discussion of the paper «Role of gut microbiota and nutrients in amyloid formation and pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease» by Pistollato et al (2).

It cites pathogens like herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1), Chlamydia pneumoniae, and several types of spirochaete which can affect the brain and play a role in Alzheimer's disease.

Anthocyanin like that found in red wine, has received a lot of attention for its role in reducing heart disease and damage from inflammation and bacterial infections.

Like vitamin D, saturated fats play a role in protecting the intestinal tract from cancer and other diseases, and in preventing osteoporosis.

The trillions of bacteria in your gut play a large role in: weight management and avoiding obesity; preventing diseases like diabetes, arthritis, MS, even cancer; balancing neurotransmitters (affecting our mood, stress, depression, etc.); boosting immunity (to avoid getting colds / flu / infections); supporting digestive health (pooping regularly and properly, avoiding tummy aches, bloating, gas), and more!

Health experts agree that antioxidants play an important role in helping to support the immune system and fight off major diseases like cancer and heart disease.