Sentences with phrase «system as foreign invaders»

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

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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.

The immune system of people who are either celiac positive or gluten sensitive will perceive this protein as a foreign invader and thus cause a reaction which can lead to a variety of signs and symptoms: • Abdominal distress, gas, bloating, chronic diarrhea, nausea • Fatigue • Joint pain • ADHD / ADD and behavioral issues • Delayed growth or failure to thrive in infants • Seizures • Acid reflux • Headaches Gluten sensitivity should be considered as an underlying cause when dealing with a chronic condition.

Typically, when the body senses a foreign substance such as a virus or a bacterium, it sends immune cells to attack the invader while also bolstering the immune system as a whole.

Normally, the immune system protects the body by attacking foreign invaders such as viruses, bacteria and other pathogens.

Immune therapy for ovarian, breast and colorectal cancer — treatments that encourage the immune system to attack cancer cells as the foreign invaders they are — has so far had limited success, primarily because the immune system often can't destroy the cancer cells.

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

The treatment, called CAR - T immunotherapy, uses genetically engineered T cells, immune system fighters usually tasked with identifying invaders in the body, such as bacteria, viruses or foreign cells.

- GalCer ligands serve as tiny dock masters in our immune system, helping antigen - presenting cells attract and bind with iNKT cells so they can be activated to kill cancerous cells or fight off pathogens and other foreign invaders.

When fighting chronic viral infections or cancers, a key division of the immune system, known as CD8 T cells, sometimes loses its ability to effectively fight foreign invaders.

In this form, the immune system mistakenly attacks its own islets as if they were foreign invaders.

Bits of a protein that builds up in Parkinson's disease trigger the immune system, causing it to tag them as foreign invaders.

When the immune system stumbles upon an unknown foreign invader for the first time, it often takes days before lashing out with full force — a time during which T cells start dividing and differentiating into specialized cells, such as antibody - producing B cells and killer T cells.

Our immune system is designed to recognise the cells that make up our bodies and repel any foreign invaders such as viruses.

An important area of research focus for NIAID is the immune system, the complex network of cells, tissues, and organs that work together to defend the body against attacks by foreign invaders such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi.

If a patient is injected with stem cells taken from a donated embryo, his or her immune system may see the cells as foreign invaders and launch an attack against them.

Your immune system marks these «foreign invaders» as pathogens and attacks them.

A new study suggests some preterm births occur because the fetus rejects the mother, after its immune system is triggered too early and senses maternal cells as foreign invaders.

Overloaded and overstimulated, the immune system responds to normally harmless substances as if against a harmful foreign invader.

Normally, your immune system acts as a protector against foreign invaders (such as germs, bacteria and viruses), and its job is to attack these foreign invaders upon sight to keep us healthy.

Interestingly, IC is increasingly considered an autoimmune disorder, meaning my symptoms could've been a result of my immune system going haywire and attacking my own bladder tissue as if it were a foreign invader.

Therefore, part of the solution often involves removing as many things from our diets that might be seen as foreign invaders by our immune systems.

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.

As the immune system fights the infection, it may begin to confuse the body's own proteins with proteins made by foreign invaders such as bacteria and viruseAs the immune system fights the infection, it may begin to confuse the body's own proteins with proteins made by foreign invaders such as bacteria and viruseas bacteria and viruses.

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

The metabolic activities performed by these bacteria resemble those of an organ, and these microorganisms perform a host of useful functions, such as training the immune system, attacking foreign invaders (like food poisoning compounds, toxins, etc.), preventing growth of harmful, pathogenic bacteria in your gut, regulating the development of the intestinal lining, producing vitamins such as biotin and vitamin K, and even producing hormones (10).

And why is that an otherwise harmless substance is then treated as a foreign invader to be attacked by the immune system?

It occurs when the immune system attacks and damages tissue as if it were a foreign invader.

Our bodies therefore find it hard to digest and treat it as a foreign invader in our system.

When this protein passes through your gut lining into the blood stream, your immune system has the potential to tag this compound as a «foreign invader», so it can be destructed.

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

The immune system is made up of a team of different types of cells that, while each having their own specific function, work together to protect the body from foreign invaders: B - cells produce antibodies; T - cells conduct surveillance for potentially dangerous molecules and kills dangerous cells such as disease - causing bacteria; and macrophages are the scavenger cells of your body acting like garbage trucks, cleaning up residue and removing potentially dangerous substances.

A dog's immune system responds to certain substances as foreign invaders, which causes an allergic reaction.

Instead, it could be a sign that the viral or bacterial component, or the adjuvant (which, containing foreign protein, is seen as an invader by the immune system), in the vaccine is winning by stealth.

The signs you see in the effusive form of FIP are believed to be the result of your cat's immune system attacking what it perceives as a threat from foreign invader.

This class of diseases arises because the immune system targets body tissues as if they were foreign invaders.

Fever increases the body's set temperature (range of temperature in which body systems can function normally) to assist the immune system by activating immune cells to attack the foreign invader, such as a bacterial infection.