Sentences with phrase «system chemical messenger»

What's more, the mice developed symptoms typical of rheumatoid arthritis in humans: Their joints became inflamed and were filled with immune system chemical messengers, such as TNF - α, which make the immune system turn on the body.

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The intensified infection leads the immune system to storm the body with chemical messengers called cytokines, ultimately increasing the likelihood of blood vessels leaking, causing hemorrhage and shock.

Chemical messengers from the immune system can wreak emotional havoc if they cross into the brain — even in people who otherwise seem healthy

Cytokines are small proteins in the immune system that act as chemical messengers between cells.

It also interferes with CD8 T cells ability to produce cytokines, chemical messengers that recruit other arms of the immune system.

Regulators are concerned because growing evidence shows that some synthetic chemicals — including those found in in insecticides, herbicides, fumigants, fungicides, detergents, resins and plasticizers — may disrupt the body's endocrine system, which controls many important functions by emitting hormones, or natural chemical messengers.

In the bloodstream, pDCs release chemical messengers called type I interferons that rev up the immune system.

This system is composed of glands, which secrete chemical messengers known as hormones.

Hormones are the chemical messengers that make up our body's communication system, where every different hormone represents a specific «message» or instruction that needs to travel throughout the body to reach its destination and influence the function of an organ.

5MTHF, along with several other nutrients, is also used to create and process neurotransmitters (messengers in the nervous system like serotonin, epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine); create immune cells and process hormones (such as estrogen); as well as to produce energy and detoxify chemicals.

Hormones are chemical messengers and a part of the body's endocrine system.

The nervous system can make very quick changes in a fraction of a second by sending electrical impulses through the spinal cord to the muscles, or it can make slow changes by sending chemical messengers, called hormones, into the blood to reach the tissues and the organs.

Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that carry signals from nerve cell to nerve cell throughout the nervous system.

In contrast, the endocrine system, which uses hormones as its chemical messengers, is typically slow acting with effects that are long lasting.

These chemical messengers act on different systems to tell the body to prepare for action by:

The brain and the nervous system influence the skin's immune cells through various receptors and chemical messengers, and scientists are now investigating how these respond to psychological stress.

Natural hormones are chemical messengers produced by the endocrine system that work to regulate the growth, functioning, and development of the body.

Hormones are the body's chemical messengers and are part of the endocrine system.

Bacteria in the digestive system, or gut flora, are also essential to the digestion and absorption of food, as well as to the production of chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters.

The immune system is composed of organs such as the thymus, lymph nodes, and spleen, cells such as lymphocytes, macrophages and monocytes and chemical messengers called cytokines.

At the same time that regulatory systems have proceeded on the «safe» level theory, biochemists have expanded the state of knowledge about the role of chemical messengers in the body.