Sentences with phrase «same autoimmune response»
The same autoimmune response that triggered the disease would likely attack new β cells derived from the patient's own iPS cells, and a normal immune response would destroy ES - derived β cells, which would appear foreign.
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However, these same inflammatory responses can become part of a disease if they mistakenly target the body's own cells, such as occurs in the case of autoimmune conditions like Crohn's disease.
«Understanding the molecular mechanism that leads to CD8 T cell exhaustion brings us a step closer to developing strategies to induce optimal T cell responses that can successfully clear infections and kill tumor cells,» explains postdoctoral researcher and co-lead author Renata M. Pereira, Ph.D. «Conversely, it may allow us to interfere with autoimmune responses that paradoxically depend on the same protein.»
In autoimmune diseases, the same immune responses mistakenly target and injure healthy tissue and, given enough time, change their size and function.
At the same time, medicinal mushrooms can act to calm your body's over-reactive autoimmune response, essentially performing double duty to ward off illness by giving your immunity a «jump start» while also alleviating symptoms of such conditions as psoriasis, lupus and arthritis.