Sentences with phrase «system cells react»

This means that how a person's nervous system cells react and respond to stimuli, can be determined from his blood.

Not exact matches

Autoimmunity is commonly caused by bacterial infections or overgrowth in the small intestine, in which partially digested food compounds are incorporated into bacterial cell walls and then the immune system, reacting to the bacteria, forms antibodies that also recognize food compounds, some of which might cross-react with human counterparts.

But if you put that same virus into a rhesus macaque, the monkey's immune system reacts similarly to that of humans; there is severe depletion of CD4 T cells and progression to AIDS, explains U.C.S.F. researcher Peter Hunt.

In this model, a system of chemicals react with each other and diffuse across a space — say between cells in an embryo.

According to Harkema, the DHA could be changing the way these cells, also known as macrophages, react to the silica in the lungs and somehow alter the immune system's response.

Cells called neutrophils, which are considered the immune system's «first line of defense» because they react strongly to foreign invaders that enter the skin through a cut or other injury, were also surprisingly important.

The scientists at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have shown that immune system cells, which react to gluten, produce chemicals called cytokines that can contribute to the development of a rare form of lymphoma (cancer of the white blood cells).

However, researchers are still learning how best to implement immunotherapy regimens, making monitoring of the immune response during treatment development and implementation critical to predicting how the modified cells will function, and how the immune system as a whole will react.

The system can help scientists determine more about how a cell reacts to its immediate environment, Bissell says, and how that process goes wrong in growing or spreading tumors, in which cells lose their ability to read signals from their environment that would prevent them from dividing.

«Some patients treated with medication for hyperthyroidism, such as thiamazole (methimazole), carbimazole or propylthiouracil, react with agranulocytosis which is a lack of white blood cells that suppresses the immune system.

«The genetic changes in these cells lead to protein changes on the cells» surface which make them an excellent target for a person's immune system to react to,» says Gan.

An international research team led by Université de Montréal medical professor Christopher Rudd, director of research in immunology and cell therapy at Maisonneuve - Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, has identified a key new mechanism that regulates the ability of T - cells of the immune system to react against foreign antigens and cancer.

Medical professor Christopher Rudd and his research team have identified a key new mechanism that regulates the ability of T - cells of the immune system to react against foreign antigens and cancer.

Because the aggressive reaction of the immune system somewhat mimics the way the body reacts to transplanted organs, the researchers wondered if common antirejection medications would increase cell survival.

Cancer biologists pursuing ways to engineer the immune system to attack tumors are acutely aware that tumor cells react to therapies in very complicated ways that, often, thwart the best ideas.

How do immune system specific cells react and behave in response to infections and other perturbations?

The immune system reacts to unknown / novel compounds through the innate system, which is mediated by white blood cells including macrophages and dendritic cells, complement cascades, natural killer cells, and cytokines.

In the opposite situation, when a healthy immune system reacts to environmental factors through cytokine production, PRPs send signals via specific cell receptor sites to decrease the production of cytokines in order to balance the immune system.

The immune system is responding to that toxin; or more correctly the immune system is reacting to the effect the toxin is having on the skin cells themselves.

The glycolyl version is introduced solely by eating red meat and due to its similarity with acetyl is incorporated into the cells of meat eaters, but the immune system reacts with inflammation leading to arthritis and autoimmune diseases.

The immune system detects the blood stagnation in the implanted foreign endometrial tissues as toxic and reacts by attacking all the endometrial cells in the body, leading to inflammation and pain.

Inflammation can be caused by many different things, but at its core, inflammation refers to the activity of the body's immune system, in which white blood cells and various other substances react to a perceived threat in the body.

The vestibular system, through the stimulus - response of the hair cells in the semicircular canals, reacts to angular acceleration and deceleration.