Sentences with phrase «weaken immune responses»

In addition to disease, conventional treatments, such as radiation and chemotherapy also weaken immune responses.

Another possible factor is that parasitic infections might weaken the immune response to HIV.

The weakened immune response would explain the rate of disease seen in the Leicester TB outbreak.

Steven Pavletic, who heads the Graft - versus - Host and Autoimmunity Section at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, says the standard treatments — corticosteroids such as prednisone — «carpet bomb» the immune system, causing a host of side effects and weakening the immune response to potentially deadly infections.

In the bats, STING had mutated, weakening the immune response.

In the current study, subjects who had the most negative emotional responses, as determined by high activity in the right prefrontal lobe, had fewer antibodies — a sign of a weakened immune response, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Without Caveolin - 1, the binding of viruses or bacteria to the B cell results in a reduced activation signal, which leads to a weakened immune response.

It seems as though invasion - front toads have weakened immune responses — that seems to be a likely reason why they are so vulnerable to the arthritis - and we are following up this lead with studies on how toads react to infection in terms of their behaviour and physiology (by Dave Llewelyn) as well as looking at the actual processes by which they combat infection.

«If you have a lot of Tregs in the environment, they weaken your immune response.

Lack of sleep decreases the activity of T - cells (a crucial type of immune cell) and weakens our immune response to vaccines.

You see, when you have psoriasis you may have a weakened immune response and have various other dysfunctions such as hormonal or digestive that can make you more prone to other auto - immune illnesses, an increased chance of infections and also a higher risk of food allergies or food sensitivities.

Cancer patients with weakened immune responses have exhibited significant decreases in stress and anxiety which contribute both to a positive emotional response as well as physiological.

Whether your cough is triggered by a weakened immune response exacerbated by stress or caused by infection, aromatherapy can provide you tremendous relief.

Veterinarians believe the repeated inflammation and the tissue scarring it creates causes the dog's weakened immune response to compensate, putting the dog at high risk for diabetes.

According to Warner, allergies can weaken the immune response and create an environment for bacterial or fungal growth, which can make a simple itching problem worse.

Not exact matches

«If we learn how to control dendritic cells, we could strengthen our immune response to infection when needed, or weaken the action of certain immune cells that attack the body's own tissues in autoimmune disease.»

Based on these ex vivo experiments (in cells isolated from patients and then exposed to PD - L1 blocking agents outside of the body), they predict that when actual patients are given PD - L1 blocking agents, their viral load at the time will influence the «net» outcome, i.e., whether the blockage boosts or weakens the overall anti-HIV immune response.

A group of researchers from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found that DNA vaccines can have the perverse effect of «tolerizing» the immune system, perhaps weakening any future response to the real pathogen.

Despite having been vaccinated against the disease in 1989, which was 3 years before Sousa and her colleagues examined them, 58 % of the Indians had a weakened or nonexistent immune reaction in skin tests that measure cell response to the tuberculosis bacterium.

One reason vaccines using weakened flu virus are not used in the elderly is that they have been exposed to many strains of flu virus over the years and have more antibodies in the nasal tract, which can inhibit the weakened flu virus from infecting and stimulating the immune response necessary to protect against the virus.

All studies showed the addition of the B strain improved the antibody response to that strain and didn't weaken the body's immune response to other flu strains in the vaccine.

Vaccination is based on the principle, developed by Edward Jenner in 1796, whereby the body's immune system, inoculated with a killed or weakened pathogen, naturally creates a protective response to the disease.

Skipping the booster would allow the immune response to weaken, so a woman could become fertile again in about a year.

Historically, vaccines against viral diseases have used live - attenuated (weakened) viruses or inactivated whole viruses to induce protective immune responses.

We subconsciously respond to treatment — even a sham one — because it comes with assurances that it will weaken the infection, allowing our immune response to succeed rapidly without straining the body's resources.

Biotoxins that dolphins had accumulated in their blubber may also have been released as the weakened mammals broke down their fat for sustenance, flooding their systems with toxins that hamper an immune response.

The «primer» pandemic influenza vaccine — made from live but weakened virus — introduces the immune system to H7N9 influenza virus, and subsequent vaccination with the «booster» inactivated virus vaccine recalls a more robust immune response.

If the animals» CD8 + T cells lacked these interferon receptors, not only did the NK cells eliminate the virus - infected cells, but also the immune cells that were supposed take action, thereby weakening the antiviral immune response.

He tested novel methods to focus the immune system on tumors and to prevent the cancer from weakening or deflecting an immune response.

But the reason was wholly different, namely a hyper - immune response that may weaken an individual.

These drugs suppress the immune system so that it won't trigger the inflammatory response, but they leave you with a weakened immune system and at risk for other illnesses.

But people with underlying health conditions such as liver disease, diabetes, stomach disorders, or other conditions that weaken the body's typical immune response are at a higher risk of more serious complications or even death, according to the FDA.

Research reported by Columbia University Medical Center has stated that those without a formal celiac diagnosis can still experience a whole body immune response to wheat consumption related to a weakening of the intestinal barrier, as well as wheat causing intestinal cell damage.

In using the Emotional Freedom Technique, the emotional cause, which originally weakened the natural immune system, is addressed by tapping acupuncture meridians and reactivating the immune response to the virus.

Temaril - P may weaken the pet's immune response and its ability to fight infections.

Prednisolone weakens a pet's immune response and its ability to fight infections.

The presence of the weakened virus or protein triggers an immune response from the body.

This product may weaken the pet's immune response and its ability to fight infections.

The process uses an engineering technique called reserve genetics and allows scientists to remove a protein from both flu viruses, weakening them considerably, but still promoting an immune system response in the dogs that won't make them sick.