Sentences with phrase «triggers body cells»

This absorption process triggers body cells, including skin cells, to start the cell repair and regeneration process.

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But in the following hours and days, the body's self - defense mechanisms backfire: White blood cells come in to clean up dead tissue, which causes massive inflammation, which in turn triggers healthy cells in the surrounding tissue to self - destruct in a process called apoptosis.

Eating highly refined food products early in the morning will only serve to trigger the body's production of insulin, which will suppress your immune system and promote the growth and spread of abnormal cells in your body.

These «triggers» can cause unwelcome byproducts to accumulate in the body and damage red blood cells.

Usually, no treatment is needed — avoiding the triggers is normally enough to prevent a crisis, or removing them is all that's necessary to eliminate symptoms, because the body then starts to create new red blood cells naturally.

However, when pathogenic T cells recognize autoantigens, i.e. elements of the body's own substances such as the myelin sheath, these T cells trigger an autoimmune disease.

Signals from the dendritic cells prime them to trigger immune reactions in other parts of the body.

Nadeau suspected the bodies of Fresno children teemed with Th2 cells that triggered asthma.

The Nabel team found that it latches onto neutrophils, which trigger inflammation, an early general assault in which scavenger cells clear the body of foreign bodies.

The four children also had more of the types of species that are known to trigger gut inflammation, a possible prelude to type - 1 diabetes, in which the body's immune system mistakenly produces antibodies that attack and destroy the beta cells of the pancreas that normally make insulin.

Now, scientists have a provocative new theory that might explain in part this universal human decline: Dying cells secrete a protein that could trigger others to die as well, accelerating the body's deterioration.

The JDF Center for Islet Cell Transplantation will fund 32 researchers to focus on four main goals: Reversing the overactive immune response that kills islet cells; finding new sources for islet cell transplants, such as pigs or genetically engineered cells; persuading the body to accept the transplanted cells without immunosuppressive drugs that often trigger worse side effects than the disease; and overcoming the technical difficulties of transplantatCell Transplantation will fund 32 researchers to focus on four main goals: Reversing the overactive immune response that kills islet cells; finding new sources for islet cell transplants, such as pigs or genetically engineered cells; persuading the body to accept the transplanted cells without immunosuppressive drugs that often trigger worse side effects than the disease; and overcoming the technical difficulties of transplantatcell transplants, such as pigs or genetically engineered cells; persuading the body to accept the transplanted cells without immunosuppressive drugs that often trigger worse side effects than the disease; and overcoming the technical difficulties of transplantation.

Metabolic changes, caused by a poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle, trigger's the genetic reprogramming of cells in the body and joints.

Because the kidney makes erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that triggers the production of red blood cells, people whose kidneys degenerate can develop anaemia — not having enough red blood cells to carry oxygen around the body.

If the antigen receptor binds a body molecule too tightly, the developing T cell might eventually cause an autoimmune disease; in this case negative selection is triggered, and the cell dies.

One theory is the DHA helps cells send an anti-inflammatory signal to the body so it doesn't overcompensate and trigger an autoimmune response.

«Our study shows a whole new route, or bypass mechanism, for triggering the body's adaptive immune response to TB infection, a means by which infected dendritic cells cooperate with uninfected dendritic cells to activate T cells and respond to the infection,» says infectious disease specialist and study senior investigator Joel Ernst, MD, a professor at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Cells that are capable of triggering inflammation are balanced by cells that promote tolerance, protecting the body without damaging sensitive tisCells that are capable of triggering inflammation are balanced by cells that promote tolerance, protecting the body without damaging sensitive tiscells that promote tolerance, protecting the body without damaging sensitive tissues.

In mice, TGN1412 primarily triggered regulatory T cells, which block the action of other T cells (and thereby reduce autoimmune reactions, wherein immune cells turn on the body's own cells).

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital immunologists have identified the protein trigger in the body's quick - reaction innate immune system that specifically recognizes the influenza virus in infected cells and triggers their death.

In fact, TBK1 may also be a contributor to debilitating diseases such as ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and childhood herpes simplex virus encephalitis, if its connection with ICOS somehow triggers B cell activation and specific antibody production against the body's own cells in ALS or an excessive response to the invading viruses in childhood encephalitis.

«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.

Stimulating the plant, such as by touch or wind pressure, triggers the release of this calcium into the main body of a cell, where sensitive calcium receptors register the nature of the stimulus and mount a biochemical response to it.

Vitiligo occurs when the body is triggered to look at melanocytes, cells which give color to the skin, as foreign or abnormal.

That's because its surface protein haemagglutinin doesn't contain many short amino acid sequences — called epitopes — that trigger helper T - cells in the body to stimulate antibody - making cells.

This triggers the blood vessel to expand, allowing other white blood cells to pass into the damaged tissue and mop up intruding bodies.

The research coming under fire reported the discovery of a potentially revolutionary process called stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP), in which exposing adult cells to a stress such as acid or pressure prompts them to behave like cells in early embryos, which can become any cell type in the body.

It turns out that neuropathic pain is triggered when the body experiences endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, a condition in which the production and transport of protein exceeds the cells» capacities, say researchers from the University of California, Davis.

The antibodies that develop to recognize and fight the pathogen can, accidentally, trigger attacks on the body's own cells.

STAP, or stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency, is the name given to an extremely easy way of deriving stem cells, which can theoretically develop into any of a body's tissues.

The immune response triggered by fetal cells might help the body detect cancer cells later in life.

When cancer cells first develop, the body is able to recognize them as foreign, triggering T - cells to attack and eliminate them.

In a report on the mouse studies, published online Sept. 11 in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), the investigators say the genetic alteration appears to release the biochemical «brakes» on brain cells involved in body movement, reasoning and perception of the world, triggering over-excited activity and reactions.

The kidneys make erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that triggers the production of red blood cells, so people whose kidneys degenerate can develop anaemia — not having enough haemoglobin - rich red blood cells to carry oxygen around the body.

Gene therapy, which often employs viruses to deliver the good genes to a body's target cells, has been known to trigger severe immune responses and was blamed for the death of an 18 - year - old in 1999, who was receiving gene therapy for a hereditary metabolic disorder.

This causes the body's white blood cells to release type 1 interferon - alpha, a small cytokine protein that acts as a systemic alarm, triggering a cascade of additional immune activity as it binds with receptors in different tissues.

Three of the drugs that cut the protein's production, including salbutamol, work by stimulating the b2 - adrenoreceptor — a molecule on some body cells that triggers a variety of effects, including relaxing the airways.

As soon as the calcium level exceeds a particular threshold value over a longer period of time, a signal cascade is triggered that initiates production of the body's tanning pigment melanin in the genetically modified cells.

This communication triggers a change in the scaffolding of the cell perimeter — altering from a fixed shape, attached to an organ, to a less stable one, moving freely around the body.

Two papers claiming that stressing the body's cell could produce embryonic - like stem cells, a process called stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP), were heralded when published in Nature in January but thrashed soon after when problematic images and figures were soon found.

«In a young, healthy individual, hypoxia — low oxygen levels — triggers the body to make factors that help coordinate the growth of new blood vessels but this process doesn't work as well as we age,» says Gregg Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and genetic medicine and director of the vascular biology program at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering.

Called pathobionts, such bacteria can shift in the eyes of immune cells from friendly (commensal) to dangerous, triggering inflammation — a rush of cells and proteins meant to destroy bacteria, but that damage the body's cells in the wrong context.

Chief among them was the finding that in all placental mammals FOXP3 acts through a snippet of DNA called the CNS1 enhancer to trigger the formation of a cohort of Tregs designated «peripheral» (whereas most Tregs are produced in the thymus gland, which sits between the lungs, a subset of the cells act as sentinels suppressing runaway immune responses in the body's peripheral tissues).

However, this process does not work well in the majority of these cells and the incomplete DNA intermediates that accumulate in the cytoplasm are sensed and trigger the cell to «commit suicide» in an attempt to protect the body.»

Researchers are developing a smartphone - controlled system that can trigger insulin - producing cells implanted in the body.

This is often enough to halt the infection but the second part of the immune response is adaptive immunity, when dendritic cells activate T lymphocytes and trigger a cascade of immune reactions, such as the formation of antibodies and killer cells that clear the infection from the body and form a memory of the invading pathogen.

Try to repair the damage by triggering or enhancing the body's own repair or cell replacement mechanisms; and

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.

When you're fasting your body uses fat as fuel and preserves muscle.Researchers from the National Institute of Aging theorized in 2003 that intermittent fasting helped trigger the SIRT1 gene, thought to both stimulate cells to release fat for use as an energy source and to deactivate the genes responsible for promoting fat storage.Other research conducted at the University of California at Berkeley indicate that this type of alternate day fasting can protect against diabetes and excessive weight gain.

I posed the question to Sunsprite creators Jacqueline Olds M.D. and Richard Stanton Schwartz M.D.; according to them, cells in the backs of our eyes respond to light — sunshine (or fake sunshine from a therapeutic light box) triggers a chemical message to a brain structure that tells the body it's time to wake up.