Sentences with phrase «system attack invading»

But when we get sick, the T cells loosen their hold to let the immune system attack invading pathogens.

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When the body encounters an infection, a molecular signaling system ramps up the body's infection - fighting system to produce more white blood cells to attack invading bacteria.

Researchers at Dartmouth - Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center are exploring ways to wake up the immune system so it recognizes and attacks invading cancer cells.

The findings upend the long - held scientific belief that only cells, known specifically as dendritic cells, infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis could stimulate a broader, defensive immune system attack of the invading microorganism.

Back then, biologists were struggling to learn how the fierce little warriors of the immune system — the white blood cells — know to attack invading pathogens but not the body itself.

When a new bacterium or virus invades the body, the immune system mounts an attack by sending in white blood cells called T - cells that are tailored to the molecular structure of that invader.

Weak immune system Aerobic workouts are a natural cold - fighter, coaxing immune cells out of body tissues and into the bloodstream, where they attack invading viruses and bacteria, explains David Nieman, DrPH, a professor at Appalachian State University, whose research shows that five days of cardio a week reduced sick days by 43 percent.

When the immune system identifies these errant proteins as invaders, it does what it does in response to any other invading pathogen: mount an attack and fortify the body's defenses by releasing histamine (which tries to get rid of the «pathogen» by inducing diarrhea, sneezing, runny nose, watery eyes, and all the other symptoms you might get from an allergic or intolerance reaction).

This leakage results in immune system production of antibodies to attack these foreign proteins as if they were invading microbes.

APS (also known as astragalus polysaccharide) has been shown to activate the immune system by enhancing the transformation of T lymphocytes (a sub-type of white blood cells, crucial in the regulation of immune responses), as well as the activation of B lymphocytes (which produce antibodies that are used to attack invading bacteria, viruses, and toxins) and dendritic cells, which trigger immune reactions to toxins.

With continued body inflammation response, your immune system senses danger and starts attacking what it thinks are invading germs.

Formed by special cells that contain «attack» enzymes that can break down proteins of invading parasites into the body, mast cells are a component of the immune system and their unique make up makes them a distinctively behaving cancer.

Lymphocytes are important to the dog's immune system as they are a type of white blood cell that can produce antibodies that attack foreign matter, such as invading bacteria, viruses, and toxins associated with kennel cough virus (27).