Sentences with phrase «system attacking viral»

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Influenza is a viral infection that attacks your respiratory system.

Five to six tablespoons of pure coconut oil taken alone or added to a hot beverage or food each day of a viral infection will weaken the lipid coating of some viruses and make them susceptible to attack by the immune system.

With little hope for Giese's survival, Rodney Willoughby, an infectious disease specialist at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, induced a coma to protect her brain from viral attack, giving Giese's immune system time to rev up to combat the virus.

According to Dr. Cripe, the study suggests that some patients could respond to therapy even if their tumors aren't very infectable by the virus, provided their immune systems were stimulated by the viral therapy to attack the tumor cells.

Flu vaccines train this adaptive immune system to attack specific viral strains.

These APOBEC3 enzymes are an essential piece of the immune system's response to viral infection, attacking viral DNA to cause disabling mutations.

Organisms, like plants and more primitive animals that don't have adaptive immune systems, use RNAi to attack and degrade viral mRNAs.

It is also the first in an emerging class of therapies called «checkpoint blockade,» which enhance the immune system's ability to attack cancer by interfering with immunological checkpoints that slow or stop immune cell activation and proliferation in the presence of tumors or chronic viral infection.

Cancer cells have developed a number of ways to survive, including ways to escape detection and attack by our immune system, but their ability to respond to viral infections is actually quite limited.

Increases levels of properdin, a chemical that activates part of the immune system responsible for increasing defence mechanisms against viral and bacterial attacks.

Without these three, the immune system leaves itself vulnerable to outside attack resulting in frequent, acute bacterial and viral infections.

As these food particles circulate throughout the body the immune system responds by attacking and destroying them for removal, just as it would respond to a viral or bacterial infection.

There are instances when conventional medicine is like a miracle, but for the one in five people suffering from autoimmune disease such as Hashimoto's hypothyroidism (a disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys tissue in the body or brain), and countless others suffering from undiagnosed autoimmunity, chronic inflammation, severe pain, environmentally induced illnesses, food sensitivities, chronic viral, bacterial, or parasitic infections, brain chemistry imbalances, hormonal imbalances, hair loss, unexplained weight gain, and more — being told your lab tests are fine and you simply need an antidepressant can feel like a kick in the groin.

Distemper is a highly contagious viral illness that often attacks the nervous system of dogs and can lead to serious impairments and even death.

┬ ╗ A Primer on Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) is a disease that attacks a cat's immune system and lowers a cat's resistance to bacterial, fungal, viral, or parasite infections.

The swine flu probably got us all, killed some 20,000 people — and left the rest of us not only largely unharmed, but also improved our collective immune system to resist new attacks by resembling H1N1 viral mutations.