Sentences with phrase «suppress autoimmunity»

But he adds that, as with any drug that suppresses autoimmunity, the risk that a diminished immune response could lead to infection remains a concern.

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Suppressing those signals could limit the autoimmunity that causes inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis patients.

Experimental animal models have been used to investigate many aspects of the clinical disease such as the sex bias in myocarditis where testosterones in males promote autoimmunity in the heart while estrogens in females suppress virus infection and autoimmunity.

On the other hand, boosting the ability of Tregs to suppress other types of immune cells could prevent autoimmunity, by preventing these cells from attacking organs and other tissues.

This proposed role for GM1 (and indirectly GD1a) provides a rationale for its potency in suppressing diabetes in NOD mice (10) and disease onset in other animal models of autoimmunity.

If you've got parasites or you've got chronic bacterial infections like H. pylori that's suppressing your ability to make stomach acid, you've got the list undigested food because of the H. pylori that's affecting your gut barrier creating leaky gut, therefore allowing the immune system to get under attack and create autoimmunity.

Nutritional deficiencies or imbalances as well as exposures to various chemicals, drugs and toxins present a continual immunological challenge which can suppress immune function, especially in those animals genetically susceptible to immune dysfunction (immune deficiency, autoimmunity, allergies).