Sentences with phrase «system attack beta»

As such, scientists hypothesise that cathelicidins may be involved in the control of type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease where certain cells in the immune system attack beta cells in the pancreas which secrete insulin.

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Type 1 diabetes, which usually starts in childhood, is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body's own beta cells.

The four children also had more of the types of species that are known to trigger gut inflammation, a possible prelude to type - 1 diabetes, in which the body's immune system mistakenly produces antibodies that attack and destroy the beta cells of the pancreas that normally make insulin.

Loss of insulin - producing beta cells has long been recognized as a cause of Type 1 diabetes, in which the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys beta cells.

In type 1 diabetes, a person's immune system attacks and destroys the pancreatic beta cells that produce insulin.

A potential solution to this problem is to reprogram other cell types into functional beta - like cells, which can produce insulin but are distinct from beta cells and therefore are not recognized or attacked by the immune system.

* In type 1 diabetes, the insulin - producing cells in the Langerhans islets of the pancreas are destroyed because they are attacked by the body's immune system (formation of islet autoantibodies against structures of the beta cells).

In T1D, beta cells are mistakenly attacked by the body's own immune system, and much prior research has focused on ways to prevent this autoimmune response.

In the case of whole pancreas transplantation, major surgery is required; and in beta cell islet transplantation, the body's immune system can still attack the transplanted cells and kill off a large proportion of them (80 % in some cases).

Ludvigsson emphasizes that weight is probably not the only thing that can press the immune system's attack on the insulin - producing beta cells.

TYPE 1 DIABETES OCCURS when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys insulin - producing beta cells in the pancreas.

Another way to say this is that one would like to figure out whether it is the beta cells screwing up and attracting the immune system or does the immune system screw up and attack perfectly normal beta cells?

If it does, then you might use the approach of making more beta cells right at early onset of the type 1 disease to try and stop or reverse the immune attack, making the immune system think its made a mistake, inducing something called anergy by making more beta cells.

An alternate approach, one which we are just beginning to explore with other colleagues here at the Stem Cell Institute, is how one might genetically engineer stem cell - derived beta cells so that the immune system didn't attack them.

We are recruiting people who have developed Type 1 Diabetes in the last 6 months to receive treatments which aim to reset the immune system and mobilize stem cells - hoping that will reverse or prevent further immune attack of pancreatic beta cells.

In type 1 diabetes, why does the immune system begin to attack beta cells and not other cells in the pancreas or in other organs or tissues?

There are some clinical trials underway to test whether blood stem cells or mesenchymal stem cells from the bone marrow might alter or re-set the immune system so that it no longer attacks the beta cells.

Renowned for our work in beta cell production and research, we are conducting studies to expand and boost insulin - producing cells and make them less susceptible to attack by the immune system.

For type 1 diabetes, there are a number of experimental approaches being taken to curb the immune system's attack on the beta cells.

Type 1 diabetes, referred to as «juvenile diabetes,» is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys pancreatic beta cells, which produce insulin.

By combining the beta - glucuronidase enzyme with Lyme antigens, the LDI diminishes the abnormally activated TH2 immune system, which is the major cause of symptoms in chronic Lyme disease, but allows the TH1 to take over and effectively attack the Lyme bacteria in the cells.

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Essentially, the body's natural immune system attacks and destroys the insulin - producing cells — called the beta cells — in the pancreas.

because of limited computer ability i have never been able to play games like WoW, but i did play L2 in the beta testing, and what i've been seeing in Guild wars was like when my level 15 elf was attacked by level 5 dark elves packing so much potion into their systems that they start ransacking towns by themselves.