Sentences with phrase «trigger autoimmune attacks»

Intriguingly, it has been reported that anti-wheat antibodies may trigger autoimmune attacks on elastin.

To prove that the UL6 protein sequence does in fact trigger the autoimmune attack of HSK, Cantor and his team have now infected mice with either normal HSV - 1 or a strain that they had genetically altered to lack the UL6 protein.

Not exact matches

Unlike other autoimmune diseases, however, doctors know the trigger for coeliac disease: gluten, which provokes an immune response that causes the body to attack itself.

The answer is complicated, he adds, but much of it involves a delicate balancing act among elements of the immune system: while immunity protects us against disease, an overly aggressive immune response may trigger dangerous, even life - threatening, autoimmune reactions in which the body attacks itself.

While genetics play a role in the development of Lupus, a systemic autoimmune disease that can attack any organ system in the human body, so do environmental triggers, such as particulates in air pollution and ultraviolet light, explains Gaurav Gulati, MD, a physician - researcher at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

The same autoimmune response that triggered the disease would likely attack new β cells derived from the patient's own iPS cells, and a normal immune response would destroy ES - derived β cells, which would appear foreign.

Scientists understand reasonably well how this autoimmune attack progresses, but they don't understand what triggers the attack or how to stop it, says Stephan Kissler, Ph.D., Investigator in the Section on Immunobiology at Joslin Diabetes Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

It also may lead to a better understanding of what T cells recognize when fighting cancers and why they are triggered to attack healthy cells in autoimmune diseases such as diabetes and multiple sclerosis.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is among the most common neurological diseases in young adults, affecting 350 000 individuals in the United States and 2 million worldwide.1 Prevailing thought is that MS is an autoimmune disorder whereby an unknown agent or agents triggers a T cell — mediated inflammatory attack, causing demyelination of central nervous system tissue.2

Autoantigens trigger the immune system to produce antibodies that attack the body's own components, resulting in autoimmune disease.

LA JOLLA, CA — Multiple sclerosis, a debilitating neurological disease, is triggered by self - reactive T cells that successfully infiltrate the brain and spinal cord where they launch an aggressive autoimmune attack against myelin, the fatty substance that surrounds and insulates nerve fibers.

One study found that exposure to chronic stress actually changes the activity of the genes of immune cells — making them more likely to attack the body's own tissue and trigger an autoimmune response.

Both psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis are autoimmune diseases, meaning they result when your immune system attacks your body, triggering inflammation.

Many healthcare practitioners report there is frequently a hidden infection that either precedes or seems to trigger an initial autoimmune attack, or subsequently appears when the immune system is weakened once autoimmunity is activated.

My main issue with the above statement is that it conflates all diabetes withover consumption of carbohydrate, where it is well known that T1D is an autoimmune disease with a reduced or no ability to produce insulin, in my case triggered by an attack of the flu.

This can trigger many different inflammatory disorders and autoimmune disease, a disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys body tissue.

Gluten has been shown to trigger inflammation in the brain and autoimmune attacks against brain tissue, which can cause anxiety.

If these antibodies are elevated, you have celiac disease - an autoimmune condition whereby the immune system is triggered to attack the small intestine upon ingestion of gluten - containing food.

Triggers that affect the immune system's response to certain substances may cause the body to react slower than normal, or over-react where the body attacks and damages its own tissues (autoimmune disease).

Gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye, has been shown to trigger and promote celiac disease, an autoimmune condition where the body's immune system attacks healthy cells.

As Dr. Fasano explains in the YouTube mentioned above, «Cross Talk Between Gut & Brain — A Fasano, MD,» and in his presentation for the Autoimmune Summit, hosted by Dr. Amy Myers, MD, that aired a few weeks ago, «If you stop the leakage triggering the overstimulated immune reaction, we think you can stop the progression of this self attack by the immune system.»

Although it is unknown what causes the immune system to attack healthy cells, most autoimmune diseases are triggered by poor diet, environmental pollution, stress, and trauma...