Sentences with phrase «system diseases like»

Shoulberg, 45, who has been practicing since 1984, says her patients mostly suffer from allergies, but she's also diagnosed skin and ear infections, and immune - system diseases like lupus.

An overreactive immune system helps fend off infections, but it could also explain why we suffer from immune - system diseases like bronchial asthma, chronic hepatitis, and type I diabetes, which don't affect chimps.

Neuroscientists are optimistic that the success of nusinersen may portend similar positive results for antisense therapies now being developed to fight other genetically linked nervous system diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Huntington disease.

Not exact matches

«People need help with navigating the system, like case management, finding housing, and help for simultaneous chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease.»

The U.S. health care system faces ever - growing costs, and a good portion of that is devoted to caring for patients with chronic health conditions like diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.

At the Challenge Festival, startups like as BaseTrace, which «uses DNA - based tracers to track where industrial fluids are going in large, complex environments» and Reliefwatch, a cloud - based system that uses smartphone technology to track inventory and diseases for healthcare organizations in the developing world, battled it out on stage for a grand prize of $ 150,000 in investment.

Second, many teas — like green tea — are rich in antioxidants, which can boost your immune system and prevent certain chronic diseases.

Like the medical system, the church is much more oriented to disease than to health.

Health experts agree that antioxidants play an important role in helping to support the immune system and fight off major diseases like cancer and heart disease.

Raw crucifers like kale do bother the endocrine systems of some people with thyroid disease.

The solution to diseases like diabetes require introducing more diversity in farming and food systems.

The high beta - carotene content of mango — evident in its vibrant orange flesh — is converted by your baby's body to vitamin A. Rich in anti-oxidants, mango helps boost the immune system and can play a role in preventing serious diseases like cancer and heart disease.

These protect the body from diseases like cancer, they're good for the heart and help support the immune system.

A former Campaign co-ordinator of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for the Bole - Bamboi constituency claims his former party was like a tormenting disease in his system.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system attacks the body instead of defending it, causing inflammation that often results in serious damage to bones, joints and tendons, and can also affect internal organs like the heart, eyes and lungs.

He insisted he was only accountable for a limited number of issues, like limiting the spread of infectious diseases like MRSA and C - difficile, but again blamed the system.

In genetically susceptible hosts, the inability to develop the immune system properly can have negative consequences like inflammatory bowel disease or any other kinds of complex immune disorders.»

The end result is that this is one of those very rare diseases — there's hardly another like it — where the virus multiplies continuously at high levels and the immune system is unable to deal with it.

An even more distant possibility: treating babies with microbes that shape the immune system to stave off autoimmune diseases like asthma and psoriasis.

The findings, published in Nature in July, could unearth the secrets of neurological diseases and disorders, like multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's, that may involve the immune system.

What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.

«Like zebrafish, we have this rich source of gut microbes that have figured out how to coexist with us and soothe the immune system,» she says, adding that «there is enormous potential to harness those mechanisms» to address ailments such as inflammatory bowel disease and other chronic inflammation.

The commission, formed by the Rockefeller Foundation and the British medical journal The Lancet, investigated the links between Earth's natural systems and human well - being, looking at how climate change and resource depletion cause problems like infectious disease and malnutrition.

«People often end up in the emergency room not necessarily for contagious diseases but for complications resulting from chronic conditions like asthma or diabetes or cardiac problems, which cost a lot to our health care system,» Ram said.

In an article entitled «Prion protein modulates monoaminergic systems and depressive - like behavior in mice» and published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the group shows that mice lacking normal prions show a depressive - like behavior similar to depression symptoms found in patients with Alzheimer's and prion diseases, namely Creutzfeldt - Jakob Disease (CJD), variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob Disease (vCJD), Gerstmann - Sträussler - Scheinker syndrome, Fatal Familial Insomnia and kuru.

«Peptide drugs are used to fight cancer, inflammation, diseases of the central nervous system, viral diseases like HIV... This gives us a chance to make a difference in people's lives.»

So it could be important in conditions like glaucoma, multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases where the central nervous system is the primary problem.»

While axonal degeneration appears to be a major culprit in diseases like multiple sclerosis, it also paradoxically plays an important role in properly wiring the nervous systems of developing embryos.

The «old friends hypothesis» proposes that the human immune system can not learn to regulate itself without exposure to common pathogens like helminths that have coevolved with people and that modern hygienic practices deprive people of this necessary exposure, possibly explaining the relatively higher and more recent prevalence of immune diseases in industrialized countries like the U.S. Loke plans to continue researching helminthic therapy in people and in monkeys.

As next steps, the researchers would like to test their hydrogel matrix in animals with normal immune systems and in disease models.

The study suggests a new method to show how microbial communities, including those responsible for illnesses like Legionnaires» disease, may assemble inside the plumbing systems of homes and public buildings.

«The distinct neural markers associated with cognitive performance and GWI revealed in our study can be useful for future research to objectively measure the efficacy of treatments for GWI as well as other brain disorders related to the same neurotransmitter system, like Alzheimer's disease.»

«Discovery of brain - like activity in immune system promises better disease treatments.»

«How male and female sex hormones can affect the immune system is important for understanding the molecular and cellular basis of sex differences in diseases like asthma,» says Nicola Heller, an immunologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine not involved in the study.

In developed countries, though, the combination might benefit children and adults whose immune systems are impaired because of cancer treatment or diseases like AIDS and who are vulnerable to rotavirus infections.

«These strategies would focus on promoting myelination in the peripheral nervous system for neuropathic disease or inhibiting Schwann cell over-proliferation that occurs during formation of peripheral nerve sheath tumors like neurofibromas.»

And HLA - DQB1 belongs to a family of genes that regulates proteins critical to the immune system, particularly important given that extreme living conditions like malnutrition can make people more susceptible to disease, Yang says.

In asthma and other allergic diseases, the immune system overreacts to minor threats — kind of like killing a mosquito with a bazooka.

With further research, the team says the concept could be adapted to monitor other biomarkers besides calcium, to serve as early warning systems for other gradually - developing illnesses like neurodegenerative diseases and hormonal disorders.

Leveraging this system could be a strategic therapeutic target for diseases like ALS and frontotemporal dementia.»

BioBright, a firm dedicated to creating the smart laboratory of the future, has announced a collaboration with the Wellcome Sanger Institute that could lead to the faster development of drugs for diseases of the immune system like rheumatoid arthritis.

These results suggest that the serotoninergic system may be not involved in the pathogenesis of depressive symptoms in AD patients, and it may be involved in other aspects of disease pathophysiology like cognitive symptoms and psychosis.

CP: Last year we revamped and updated our course to be focused on Systems Biology of Disease because there were no courses like it out there.

Beyond the clinical effects of diseases like Alzheimer's and other dementias, these disorders also profoundly affect an individual's independence and quality of life as well as the lives of caregivers and others within the support system.

That's partly because different plants and animals will respond differently to threats like disease, pests, or climate change, but also because if one plant or animal falls victim to such challenges, others will be there to fill the hole left behind, helping to prevent the entire system from collapsing.

What could medicine look like someday if, instead of focusing primarily on the organ affected by a disease — neurologists examining brain diseases, pulmonologists focusing on lung diseases — our system was centered on how cells process energy?

The broad conservation of neurohormonal signaling pathways between mammalian systems and C. elegans such as insulin - like signaling, serotonin, etc., validates studying the cell non-autonomous control of protein homeostasis by the nervous system of C. elegans to instruct our understanding of age - related human disease.

Despite a mild case of graft - versus - host disease (a condition in which donor cells can irritate the host's immune system), which is being managed with medication, Cavalancia says she doesn't feel sick at all: «I feel like I am going to live until I'm 90.»

Production of a compound (β - hydroxybutrate) that blocks part of the immune system involved in inflammatory disorders like diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, or Alzheimer's disease

People with a weakened immune system or a chronic lung condition like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can develop a serious infection in the lungs if they're exposed to mold.