News tagged with immune system
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Study advances fight against leading infectious cause of congenital birth defects
A virus most people probably have never heard of, but that the majority of us carry, is the No. 1 infectious cause of congenital birth defects in the U.S. today. Because of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection during in utero ...
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Protein implicated in lupus promotes disease progression by distinct mechanisms in different immune cells
Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) come under attack by their immune system, producing 'autoantibodies' that inflict damage throughout the body. Antibodies normally target foreign proteins, ...
Immunology
Mar 13, 2013 |
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H1N1 flu jab linked to small risk of nervous disorder
Vaccination in the United States against H1N1 "swine" flu, which swept the world in 2009-10, carried a small but tolerable risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a disorder that can cause muscle weakness or temporary paralysis, ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 13, 2013 |
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Fertilisers could help tackle nutritional deficiency in African country, researchers say
Enriching crops by adding a naturally-occurring soil mineral to fertilisers could potentially help to reduce disease and premature death in the African country of Malawi, researchers have said.
Health
Mar 12, 2013 |
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Evolution in the antibody factory: How immune cells are able to advance their own evolution
Immune system B cells play a crucial role in the defence of pathogens; when they detect such an intruder, they produce antibodies that help to combat the enemy. They concurrently and continuously improve ...
Immunology
Mar 11, 2013 |
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Some brain cells are better virus fighters
(Medical Xpress)—Viruses often spread through the brain in patchwork patterns, infecting some cells but missing others. New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis helps explain ...
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Mar 07, 2013 |
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Excess dietary salt identified as autoimmune trigger
For the past few decades, health officials have been reporting increases in the incidence of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). Now researchers at Yale School of Medicine, Harvard Medical ...
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Mar 06, 2013 |
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Circuitry of cells involved in immunity, autoimmune diseases exposed
New work from the Broad Institute's Klarman Cell Observatory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, MIT, and Yale University expands the understanding of how one type of immune cell – known as a T helper 17 ...
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Mar 06, 2013 |
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Obesity makes fat cells act like they're infected
(Medical Xpress)—The inflammation of fat tissue is part of a spiraling series of events that leads to the development of type 2 diabetes in some obese people. But researchers have not understood what triggers ...
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Mar 05, 2013 |
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Mini-organ would mimic pancreas to treat type 1 diabetes
(HealthDay)— A new bioengineered, miniature organ dubbed the BioHub might one day offer people with type 1 diabetes freedom from their disease.
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Mar 05, 2013 |
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Genes that control nervous system development play a role in gum disease
(Medical Xpress)—By simultaneously investigating millions of gene variants in more than 5,000 individuals, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveal that genes that are responsible for nervous ...
Genetics
Mar 05, 2013 |
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A vaccine that works in newborns? Promising compound may help protect babies during vulnerable window
The underdeveloped immune systems of newborns don't respond to most vaccines, leaving them at high risk for infections like rotavirus, pertussis (whooping cough) and pneumococcus. Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital ...
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Mar 04, 2013 |
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HIV 'cure' in infancy, caution experts
AIDS experts cautioned Monday against hype of a cure after doctors in the United States suppressed HIV in a child born with the virus by administering a potent drug cocktail shortly after birth. ...
HIV & AIDS
Mar 04, 2013 |
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'Very low' risk of infections in advanced brain procedures
Patients undergoing cerebral angiography and neurointerventional procedures on the brain are at very low risk of infection—even without preventive antibiotics, reports a study in the March issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. ...
Neuroscience
Mar 04, 2013 |
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Gene discovery reveals importance of eating your greens
(Medical Xpress)—Eating your greens may be even more important that previously thought, with the discovery that an immune cell population essential for intestinal health could be controlled by leafy greens ...
Immunology
Mar 04, 2013 |
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