Sentences with phrase «skin diseases which»

Much the same as in the argument about smoking, tanning can lead to skin diseases which will lead to rise in health - care costs, so there is that.

«If your dog is frequently or constantly scratching, licking, biting, scooting and / or rubbing, the underlying cause might be an allergic skin disease which can lead to additional problems including infection and severe skin irritation.

⠀ ★ I've got some weird skin disease which makes my skin really itchy.

Not exact matches

Leprosy, a skin disease, during the last stages of which members of the body rot away, was considered a communicable disease in ancient society.

They're bursting with those essential (meaning our bods can't make them) omega - 3 fatty acids, which combat inflammation, prevent disease, boost brain health, and give a nice sheen to your skin and hair.

They are also rich in sulfur and selenium, which, maintains healthy skin and helps prevent heart disease including atherosclerosis, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

These symptoms develop over several days to a week before more advanced signs of the disease start to emerge, including jaundice which is noticed by yellowed skin and yellow eye balls, or dark urine and pale stools.

Low oxygen in the blood will cause babies to have blue - colored skin, which is why the disease is commonly called «blue baby» disease.

One chemical used in manufacturing disposables is dioxin, «which in various forms has been shown to cause cancer, birth defects, liver damage, and skin diseases».

According to a Mothering Magazine article, entitled «The Joy of Cloth Diapers» «Dioxin, which in various forms has been shown to cause cancer, birth defects, liver damage, and skin diseases, is a by - product of the paper - bleaching process used in manufacturing disposable diapers, and trace quantities may exist in the diapers themselves.»

This disease often causes insensitivity in the arms and legs, which can cause burns if the person is not aware of excessively hot temperatures making contact with his skin.

Due to this, various minor skin diseases can happen, which generally disappear in few days.

This pillow uses hypoallergenic fabrics and fillings which eliminate skin diseases, allergic reactions, and breathing issues.

To develop their «disease in a dish» model, the team took skin cells from patients with Allan - Herndon - Dudley syndrome and reprogrammed them into induced pluripotent stem cells, which then can be developed into any type of tissue in the body.

The researchers also report that saliva increased DENV infection of immune cells in the skin and enhanced immune cell migration to neighboring lymph nodes, which could promote the spread of disease throughout the body.

So Izpisúa Belmonte and his colleagues harvested fibroblasts, which are far more common than stem cells, from the skin of people with the bone marrow disease Fanconi anaemia.

To find out, the researchers injected a cloned telomerase gene into cultured cells from retina, skin, and blood vessels, all of which are associated with degenerative, aging - related diseases.

Psoriasis is a disease of the immune system in which inflammation causes skin cells to multiply faster than normal.

Annually, approx. 50 people in Denmark are diagnosed with the disease, which is often confused with eczema or other benign skin diseases, which is why it sometimes takes years to reach the proper diagnosis.

It was previously shown by others that a rare disease called generalized pustular psoriasis (in which the skin erupts into pustules) was caused by a genetic mutation that resulted in unrestrained activity of a protein normally produced in our skin, called IL - 36.

Despite having been vaccinated against the disease in 1989, which was 3 years before Sousa and her colleagues examined them, 58 % of the Indians had a weakened or nonexistent immune reaction in skin tests that measure cell response to the tuberculosis bacterium.

This surely contributes to the rarity or nonexistence of human - to - human transmission of rabies (acquired by the bite of an infected dog or bat); cat - scratch disease (which causes skin lesions and swollen lymph nodes); tularemia (a disease, often acquired when hunting and cutting up an infected rabbit, that can cause skin ulcers, swollen lymph nodes, and fever); and BSE (probably acquired by eating the nervous system tissue of infected cows).

Fleas sometimes transmit disease with their host's help: Their bites are itchy, so the host scratches, breaking the skin and pushing in flea feces and vomit, which can be loaded with pathogens.

According to Dr. Wu, the inflammatory effects of this skin disease can impact the entire body, which may lead to cardiovascular problems.

The research team, led by Woodhams, studied midwife toads, which live in Europe and are highly susceptible to the chytrid fungus, a skin disease that is devastating amphibian populations across the globe.

A high - salt diet, which increases sodium storage in the skin, can also worsen autoimmune disease and even increase the risk of stomach cancer.

The researchers now want to conduct follow - up studies to optimise the use of IgEnio — currently patients have to have IgE antibodies removed from their blood for a morning approximately once a week during the pollen season — and to test its use for treating inflammatory skin diseases, in which IgE antibodies are also implicated.

The English physician knew that dairymaids who contracted cowpox, a comparatively mild skin disease, became immune to the much deadlier smallpox, which at the time killed 400,000 Europeans a year.

Dr Wenxin Wang is trying to uncover therapies for diseases such as diabetic ulcers and Epidermolysis Bullosa, which causes chronic skin conditions: «We are currently investigating the use of these new materials for biomedical applications such as drug / gene delivery, cross linkable hydrogel materials and skin adhesives.

Jun Takahashi at Kyoto University, Japan, and colleagues wondered whether they could treat monkeys with a disease like Parkinson's using induced pluripotent stem cells, which are made by coaxing blood or skin cells into becoming stem cells.

«By gaining a more complete awareness of the fungal and bacterial ecosystems, we can better address associated skin diseases, including skin conditions which can be related to cancer treatments.»

Amphibians infected by the disease have skin several times thicker than normal, which affects their ability to breathe and the transfer of electrolytes.

Overactivation of this pathway, which most likely evolved to detect the presence of disease - bearing insects on the skin, results in increased scratching akin to that seen in patients who develop chronic itch.

«Use of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology» — which involves taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming them into embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease — «makes it possible to model dementias that affect people later in life,» says senior study author Catherine Verfaillie of KU Leuven.

Hina had developed the devastating immune reaction known as graft - versus - host disease, in which donor cells attack the walls of the gut, skin, lungs, liver, and sometimes — though rarely — even the patient's brain.

Malaria causes the bodies of its human hosts to emit specific odours from the skin that make the hosts even more attractive to mosquitoes, which invites further bites and risks infection of more mosquitoes and wider transmission of the disease.

The study shows that Vitamin D3 — which is made by the body naturally when skin is exposed to the sun — can significantly restore the damage to the cardiovascular system caused by several diseases, including hypertension, diabetes and atherosclerosis.

However, potent compounds from the marine environment, especially extreme surroundings such as hydrothermal vents or arctic regions only await to be unveiled which undoubtedly hold promises in the discovery of tyrosinase inhibition, thus opening new perspective for treatment of skin disorders as well as neurodegeneration related diseases.

However, although the human core temperature may be indicative of several bodily dysfunctions, there is still a lack of scientific evidence about which musculoskeletal diseases or conditions can be diagnosed by evaluating skin surface temperature with IRT.

Most products on the market today that are used to treat skin problems target the effects of the disease or wound such as inflammation, which can prolong the healing process and result in scarring.

«We have long known that an activated immune system and a defective skin barrier are both important factors in eczema, but not how they are related and which one drives the disease,» said Dr. Leung.

This is a schematic of how a «chimeric autoantibody receptor,» or CAAR, that displays fragments of the autoantigen Dsg3 helps fight an autoimmune disease called pemphigus vulgaris, a condition in which a patient's own immune cells attack Dsg3, which normally adheres skin cells.

One example is pemphigus vulgaris (PV), a blistering skin disease in which autoantibodies attack desmoglein 3 (Dsg3), the protein that binds together skin cells.

Caused by the fungus Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, snake fungal disease (SFD) can lead to symptoms including skin lesions, scabs and crusty scales, which can contribute to the death of the infected animal in some cases.

In that case, the skin cells became striatal medium spiny neurons, which are affected in Huntington's disease — an inherited, eventually fatal genetic disorder that causes involuntary muscle movements and cognitive decline beginning in middle adulthood.

Fresh - water snails living in certain tropical regions of the world release the larval forms of the schistosome parasite, which penetrate the skin, migrate through the body, and develop into adults that lay eggs that cause the disease.

Skin biopsies are then collected and reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells by the NYSCF Global Stem Cell Array, permitting Dr. Fossati and her team to generate patient specific neural cells, which will hopefully shed light on the mechanisms of disease progression.

«Personal protection would include wearing long sleeves and long pants to protect your skin from various biting mosquitoes, which is a little bit uncomfortable during the hot summer months, but these mosquitoes can be disease - carrying, so taking these prevention steps can be crucial,» Day says.

For example, we can run drug tests on heart cells created from a patient's own skin cells, which contain a complete set of the genes that caused the disease.

In 2014, a Japanese woman in her 70s with age - related macular degeneration — a common eye condition that can lead to blindness — had a tiny sheet of retinal pigment tissue made from her own skin cells implanted into one eye, which reportedly stopped the disease's progression.