Sentences with phrase «triggered by an immune system»

It is triggered by the immune system, and new insights into immune processes have thrown up a number of exciting drug targets.

It is generally triggered by the immune system when it recognizes an invader or damage to tissue that must be kept under control.

But it often involves a genetic weakness being triggered by an immune system response to toxins; food proteins like gluten and casein; or chronic bacterial, yeast, or parasite infections.

This inflammatory skin condition is triggered by the immune system.

Not exact matches

This means that in those with the condition the immune system is mistakenly triggered by a substance to produce antibodies and to attack parts of their own body.

Although derived from a natural source, carrageenan appears to be particularly destructive to the digestive system, triggering an immune response similar to that your body has when invaded by pathogens like Salmonella.

Could it be triggered by the maternal immune system response to teh gluten in the formula?

In rare cases, food poisoning can be caused by allergens triggering your body's immune system to act abnormally.

A vaccine must incorporate key proteins from the malaria parasites, which will trigger production of antibodies by the immune system.

Exactly how asthma begins and progresses remain a mystery, but a team led by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has uncovered a fundamental molecular cue that the nervous system uses to communicate with the immune system, and may potentially trigger allergic lung inflammation leading to asthma.

This is what causes problems like IBD — it's not the bacteria itself, but the immune system's severe reaction triggered by the protein.

There was another intriguing connection: Acinetobacter are molecular mimics of proteins found in myelin, the nerve cell coating that the immune system attacks in MS.. That suggests the bacteria might trigger immune attacks that hit myelin, too, as when soldiers who inadvertently resemble the enemy get hit by friendly fire.

Conventional vaccines work by triggering the immune system into manufacturing antibodies against an infectious organism, but such a vaccine has proved elusive for the rapidly mutating HIV.

Epigenetic therapies are thought to work in two ways to fix these errors in cancer cells — by correcting the «position» of the gene switches and by making the cell appear as though it's infected by a virus, triggering the immune system.

It is caused by a deregulation of the immune system triggering an acute inflammatory response.

This study is also the first to identify mechanisms by which gut bacteria triggers changes in the immune system that underlie MS progression.

A VIRAL TRIGGER A reovirus (illustrated here) may jump - start celiac disease by turning the immune system against gluten, a new study in mice suggests.

Counterintuitively, it is not the bacteria or its toxins that make toxic shock fatal, but rather the overzealous inflammatory response triggered and perpetuated by the immune system.

But Claudia Guida, a PhD student in the group jointly led by Matthias Hentze at EMBL and Martina Muckenthaler at Heidelberg University Clinic, found that ferroportin can be dialled down independently of hepcidin, by triggering responses from TLR2 and TLR6, two molecules our immune system uses to detect bacterial components.

Because human T cells don't have as many of these brakes, our cells are a hundred times more aggressive than those of chimps when faced with drugs like TGN1412, which work by triggering the immune system.

In a report to be published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe online June 11, researchers showed that immune - system - triggering TB proteins, or antigens, were able to prompt a larger, prolonged immune system response just by being transported from infected dendritic cells to uninfected ones.

Some evidence suggests inhaling fine particles, or soot, may disrupt the immune system and trigger inflammation in the gut by making it more permeable and altering its normal bacteria.

«This debris left by dead cells can mistakenly signal to the body that there is an infection that warrants immune action, triggering the innate immune system,» said Bruce A. Sullenger, Ph.D., director of the Duke Translational Research Institute.

New findings published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology by UNC School of Medicine scientists show that MRGRPX2, a receptor protein on the surface of mast cells, can trigger the immune system response that leads to itching associated with some opioids.

Fluge's team thinks a person's own immune system may stop PDH from working, possibly triggered by a mild infection.

The challenge has been how to remove the molecular badges — A, B, and AB — that lie on the surface of the red blood cells and can trigger rejection by a patient's immune system.

However, despite this success, the use of immunotherapy remains limited by the scarcity of tumor - specific antigens — substances that can trigger an immune system response to a particular type of cancer.

More commonly, researchers have blamed the innate immune system — triggered by the pathogens once they enter the brain — for Alzheimer's pathology.

A study published by Cell Press November 21st in the journal Immunity reveals how HIV - 1 escapes detection by essentially becoming invisible to a patient's immune system, whereas HIV - 2 triggers protective immune responses in patients.

Chronic inflammation triggered by these pro-inflammatory factors changes the immune response and vascular system and finally disrupts the physiological function of many tissues to promote the aging process.

Some not - yet - identified molecule, or combination of molecules, such as proteins, fats, or sugars, made by bacteria cause the immune system to produce T helper 17 cells (Th17), which trigger a surge in inflammation as part of the response to a pathogenic strain.

* Chronic stress promotes colitis by disturbing the gut microbiota and triggering immune system response — Xinghua Gao — PNAS

While ZVex primes the immune system by triggering the generation of CTLs, GLAAS, by activation of CD4 cells, boosts the immune response by expanding and enhancing the function of CTLS and other anti-tumor mechanisms.

In his Ph.D. research at Harvard Medical School, Chan engineered dengue virus so that instead of proliferating without being detected by the immune system, it would instead trigger a robust immune response.

Although derived from a natural source, it appears to be particularly destructive to the digestive system, triggering an immune response similar to that your body has when invaded by pathogens like Salmonella.

If the immune system is infected by bacteria in food or detects the food we eat as an allergen (especially because of artificial additives in processed foods) it will trigger the inflammation alarm.

When your immune system detects any of these invaders, it fights back by triggering proteins that are meant to protect your cells and tissue.

This then triggers a system - wide immune response, leading to inflammation all over the body and producing obesity by increasing insulin resistance.

This autoimmune disease works by making the immune system secrete antibodies that act like thyroid - stimulating hormones (TSH), which then trigger hormone secretion in the thyroid.5

Inflammation is the response of the innate immune system triggered by noxious stimuli, microbial pathogens and injury.

But for people with inflammatory diseases like atopic dermatitis, the immune systems overreacts and triggers certain ILs to respond by producing inflammation.

Other substances in the diet aside from arachidonic acid can also lead to inflammation.Anytime you have food allergies or intolerances, you will have an increased level of inflammation in your body as your immune system is forced to work overtime.You can do an ALLERGY ELIMINATION DIET to determine which foods you are most sensitive to.Most patients are triggered by a favorite food.

Current university research shows that floatation strengthens the immune system by countering the fight or flight reaction in the body, triggers the parasympathetic (relaxation) response.

Summarized by Suzuki (2013), «Disruption of the intestinal tight junction barrier, followed by permeation of luminal noxious molecules, induces a perturbation of the mucosal immune system and inflammation, and can act as a trigger for the development of intestinal and systemic diseases» (p. 631).

It produces thymosin which triggers the immune system by activating the T - Cells and T - Lymphocytes which are white blood cells associated with antibody production.

Antibodies themselves are highly specific proteins which are utilised by the immune system to locate and attack foreign objects to fight off the molecules, as they are perceived as «antigens», and antigens are substances which are capable of triggering the production of antibodies.

But both the immediate and the delayed responses are immune system problems triggered by a supposedly «harmless» food.

This study by the University of Southern California found that fasting could trigger white blood cell regeneration, which has major implications for people suffering from damaged immune systems (i.e. cancer patients).

If your fibromyalgia is triggered by a sensitive immune system response, turmeric can help reduce inflammation and encourages your body to respond normally to pain, rather than overreact as is the typical case in fibromyalgia.

APS (also known as astragalus polysaccharide) has been shown to activate the immune system by enhancing the transformation of T lymphocytes (a sub-type of white blood cells, crucial in the regulation of immune responses), as well as the activation of B lymphocytes (which produce antibodies that are used to attack invading bacteria, viruses, and toxins) and dendritic cells, which trigger immune reactions to toxins.