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| | Immune system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Attenuated immune response: There are 'congenital' (inborn) and 'acquired' forms of immunodeficiency, characterized by an attenuated response. | | | Other examples of overzealous immune responses in disease include hypersensitivities, such as allergies and asthma. | | | Most multicellular organisms possess an "innate immune", generally comprising a set of genetically-encoded responses to pathogens, that does not change during the lifetime of the organism. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system
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| | Pesticide-induced Immunotoxicity: Are Great Lakes Residents at Risk? |
| | Exposure levels required to induce immune change in laboratory animals may not yet be achieved in humans under the present conditions of environmental exposure. | | | Although there is evidence that pesticides affect certain functions of the immune and hematopoietic systems that may predispose to neoplasia, it remains difficult to relate these changes to clear-cut adverse health risks. | | | Standardized methods of assessing human immune function are now widely available and need to be used in the present context to better establish baseline values for important immunologic end points for future use in well-designed epidemiology studies. |
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http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/1995/Suppl-9/thomas-full.html
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| | Environmental Chemical Exposures and Risk of Herpes Zoster |
| | The increasing use of immunosuppressive therapy in the treatment of patients with such conditions as cancer and asthma, and the rising number of recipients of organ transplants, may explain a portion of the increase in the incidence of herpes zoster during the last decades (29). | | | This may be due in part to the lack of sensitivity of routinely used measurements of immune function and to the diversity of responses observed in those tests among exposed individuals. | | | Furthermore, the immune system contains redundancies and backups so that any given abnormality may be compensated for by other functional pathways (32). |
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http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/1999/107p835-841arndt/arndt-full.html
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| | Photochemistry and Photobiology: Inhibition of UV-induced immune suppression and interleukin-10 production by plant ... |
| | Furthermore, studies by Streilein's laboratory suggest that susceptibility to UV-induced immune suppression of T-cellmediated contact hypersensitivity responses may be a risk factor for the development of skin cancer in humans (6). | | | Thus, therapeutic intervention in these two pathways to prevent immune suppression may be beneficial in reducing the risk of skin cancer. | | | Because UV radiation has a limited capacity to penetrate skin, the systemic suppression is mediated indirectly, through the action of immunosuppressive cytokines (7,8,27,28). |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3931/is_199902/ai_n8850567
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| | Eliminating Hydrocortisone-induced Immune Suppression with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in vitro |
| | The observations coming from the clinical application of Pseudomonas aeruginosa clearly demonstrate that, with this preparation, existing blockages in which various other attempts at naturopathic therapy have failed to improve the condition of the affected patients can be broken up. | | | What we here have in mind is influencing neuroimmunological processes or else the breakup of immunosuppressive feedback systems set in motion by other substances or processes. | | | The goal of the investigations reported on here was to make these effective properties of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in vitro visible under defined experimental conditions, using the example of hydrocortisone-induced immune suppression. |
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http://www.explorepub.com/articles/bio-therapy2.html
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| | EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN STRATOSPHERIC OZONE AND GLOBAL CLIMATE |
| | We have previously postulated that UVB-induced systemic immune suppression is mediated by a specific skin photoreceptor situated in the stratum corneum of mammalian skin. | | | One of the major puzzles about skin cancer is that nearly all UV-induced skin tumors in mice are highly antigenic and capable of evoking strong immunologic rejection responses by the host. | | | I: Evidence for the existence of a unique photoreceptor in skin and its role in photoimmunology. |
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http://www.ciesin.org/docs/011-535c/001-535c.html
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| | Pathogenesis of immune suppression in hypercatabolic diseases: AIDS, septicaemia, toxic shock syndrome and protein ... |
| | In our opinion, we must enlarge the immune system’s role to include the disposal of a constant stream of "altered self-structures." The disposal of exogenous "non-self" structures is to be regarded as a secondary function, called upon only when the need arises. | | | According to the current paradigm, the role of the immune system is restricted to eliminating foreign ‘’non-self" structures, and it does not concern itself with the body’s own "self-structures". | | | Surgery is an ideal means of studying short-term stress responses regarding the relative immune performance of T and B-cells. |
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http://www.garynull.com/Documents/Continuum/PathogenesisImmuneSuppressionHypercatabolicDiseases.htm
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| | Project Inform Perspective 18 - Article #6 [ HIV / AIDS Treatment Information ] |
| | This may be directly responsible for the noted improved immune response. | | | Due to the large degree of public and professional concern over this experiment, the level of immune suppression (also called “ablation”) employed in this study was much less than originally planned. | | | The ultimate goal in this experiment is not to replace the human immune system, but rather to augment it with healthy, functioning cells resistant to HIV-infection. |
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http://www.projinf.org/pub/18/baboon.html
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| | Immune System & Disease Resistance |
| | This article discusses the essential role of the immune system in maintaining the body’s overall general health and resistance to disease. | | | This is often viewed as desirable because a more potent immunogen presumably mounts a more effective and sustained immune response. | | | To me, this practice makes no sense from a scientific or medical perspective. |
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http://www.gdhfa.org/ImmuneSystem.htm
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| | UCSF News Office - Researchers find a potential key to human immune suppression in space |
| | During that mission, she participated in experiments that identified T-cells as the particular components of immune function that were compromised. | | | The researchers found that three other pathways which regulate immune function — P13K, PKC, and pLAT — were not affected by the absence of gravity. | | | "You're short-circuiting a whole lot of the immune response — namely, the ability to proliferate T-cells — which shouldn't be a surprise, because life evolved in Earth’s gravity field." |
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http://pub.ucsf.edu/newsservices/releases/200510124
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| | Weill Cornell Scientists Identify Mechanism Governing Immune System Suppression |
| | In fact, runaway immune systems are the very heart of painful chronic conditions such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn's. | | | Scientists have been looking for decades for a way to short-circuit the immune response, as a means of easing these conditions. | | | New York, NY (November 16, 2004) — Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College believe they've uncovered a molecular switch that naturally suppresses the body's immune response in situations where it's not needed. |
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http://www.med.cornell.edu/news/press/2004/11_16_04_b.html
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| | Vaccinations and Immune Suppression |
| | Therefore, the best method to avoid the flu is to strengthen our immune system by eating properly and getting all the essential vitamins and minerals that our body needs. | | | Very likely, it is the foreign nature of SIV which makes it deadly to our immune system and our immune system goes on the blink. | | | Of course, anything which depresses our immunity will eventually lead to cancer, since it is our immune system which cleanses and eliminates mutated (cancerous) cells from our body daily. |
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http://www.mercola.com/article/vaccines/immune_suppression.htm
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| | IMMUNE.1/STS-60 |
| | The objective of the payload was to measure the immune responses of rats to microgravity exposure. | | | Investigators hoped to learn about ways to prevent or reduce the immune system suppression that occurs as a result of some serious disease conditions and old age. | | | Thirty-six male specific pathogen free rats (Rattus norvegicus) belonging to the Sprague-Dawley CD strain acted as the experiment subjects. |
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http://lifesci.arc.nasa.gov/lis2/Chapter4_Programs/IMMUNE/IMMUNE_1.html
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| | Immune Function |
| | Further research is needed but it may be helpful in a wide range of conditions in which the immune system is weakened. | | | Asian ginseng has a long history of use in traditional herbal medicine for preventing and treating conditions related to the immune system. | | | Cordyceps has immune strengthening actions in human and animal studies. |
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http://www.a1nutritionproducts.com/health/Concern/Immune_Function.htm
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| | Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients: Beating chemotherapy-induced immune suppression - Active Hexose Correlated ... |
| | Surgery, radiation and chemotherapies weaken immune system defenses, leaving many patients vulnerable to opportunistic infections, contributing to mental and physical fatigue and allowing for post-therapy cancer reoccurrences and/or metastasis. | | | AHCC has been the subject of more than 29 published studies since 1986 and is used in ever 700 hospitals in Japan, so there is a great deal of scientific evidence that AHCC not only helps to prevent the side effects of chemotherapy, but enhances its primary effectiveness as well, | | | Validation of animal research with AHCC is found in controlled studies and case reports with human patients. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_2002_July/ai_87720002
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| | GPI -- Toxics Campaign -- Human Health Effects |
| | Several studies have shown that some women of the general population have body levels PCBs and/or dioxins, which are within the range at which changes in the immune systems of their babies may occur. | | | This indicated that effects on their immune systems were long-term. | | | Research has shown that the immune system and the endocrine system are closely inter-connected. |
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http://archive.greenpeace.org/toxics/toxicsold/he/he-human6.html
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| | Mechanisms involved in immune suppression caused by papilloma virus in cervical uterine cancer (CaCu) |
| | These findings support the possible design of a new vaccine or the use of immune therapy with cytokines in-patients with cervical cancer. | | | Immune suppression is associated wi th a decrease in T lymphocyte activity, which play a crucial role in the anti-cancer immune response against Cervical Cancer. | | | Also analyzed were the presence of proteins involved in signal transduction in the lymphocytes of patients with advanced Cervical Cancer. |
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http://www.insp.mx/cisei/english/proy_5.html
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| | Insect Immune Suppression |
| | Eulophus, Pimpla and Meteorus) and the predatory bug (Podisus) attacking Lacanobia and Chrysodeixis), to identify the mechanisms responsible for the immune response, and to investigate anti-immune response systems utilised by parasitoids, pathogens and predators, and to isolate and identify the factors suppressing the insect immune response. | | | With these model systems, we have identified which host immune defence systems are manipulated by the parasitoids, localised some of the factors responsible, and are currently identifying the chemical nature of anti immune substances. | | | We have established, using encapsulation experiments, that the immune function of L. |
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http://www.csl.gov.uk/science/organ/environ/invertebrate/maff1.cfm
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| | Augusta Georgia: technology@ugusta: New immune suppression drug allows mismatched marrow transplants 06/03/99 |
| | ``This is starting to crack open the door on a new way of manipulating the immune system,'' said Dr. Eva C. Guinan of Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where the approach was developed and tested. | | | Doctors say this could allow patients to receive marrow transplants without the need for drugs that broadly suppress the body's immune defenses. | | | The drug suppresses only that part of the immune system that causes these complications. |
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http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/060399/tec_124-2624.shtml
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| | Poppers: Large Cancer Increase and Immune Suppression in Animal Tests - AIDS Treatment News |
| | Malignancies are a major and increasing problem in AIDS, and it will be important to find out if use of poppers is contributing to their higher incidence. | | | Previously, epidemiological studies had found that use of poppers is associated with KS, and also is an independent risk factor for infection with HIV (suggesting that poppers may increase the risk that exposure to HIV will lead to infection). | | | Poppers: Large Cancer Increase and Immune Suppression in Animal Tests - AIDS Treatment News |
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| | Gene Changes Linked To Deficient Immune Suppression In Multiple Sclerosis |
| | Added Richard Bartholomew, Ph.D., executive director of research and development for The Immune Response Corp. and a study co-author: "What we think NeuroVax is doing is stimulating regulatory T-cells that then down-regulate proliferation of the pathogenic T-cells. | | | NeuroVax, a T-cell receptor peptide vaccine co-discovered by Vandenbark and colleagues at The Immune Response Corp., was shown in a separate study to increase FOXP3 expression levels among MS patients receiving injections of the drug for a year. | | | The MS patients had relapsing-remitting, primary progressive or secondary progressive MS and were not receiving any treatments for the disease at sampling time. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/050627061854.htm
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| | Medical Dictionary: Immune suppression - CureResearch.com |
| | More information on medical condition: Immune deficiency conditions: | | | Immune suppression (condition): Any of various diseases that suppress the immune system. | | | Immune suppression: Another name for Immune deficiency conditions. |
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| | Tumor-targeted immune cells cure prostate cancer in mice without causing systemic immune suppression |
| | Chung Lee, John T. Grayhack, M.D., Professor of Urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and his laboratory group described the adoptive transfer gene therapy technique in the March issue of Cancer Research. | | | In a major breakthrough in cancer gene therapy, a Northwestern University researcher has endowed immune cells with the ability to specifically target metastatic prostate cancer in mice without causing the toxic immune suppression that has been associated with earlier forms of cancer gene therapy. | | | The researchers first rendered immune cells known as CD8+ T cells insensitive to transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta), a powerful, naturally occurring substance in the body that enables cancer cells to evade surveillance by the body's immune system. |
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/nu-tic031005.php
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma |
| | Calling your health care provider Return to top | | | For most patients, the cause is unknown, but lymphomas may develop in people with suppressed immune systems as a result of organ transplantation, for instance. | | | Infections resulting from immune suppression from chemotherapy or radiation therapy, or low gamma globulin secondary to disease |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000581.htm
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| | Immunodeficiency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Immune suppression is a common side-effect of many drugs, most importantly chemotherapy. | | | However, Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are used to suppress immune activity in autoimmune disorders to slow progression of this type of disease. | | | In medicine, immunodeficiency (or immune deficiency) is a state in which the immune system's ability to fight infectious disease is compromised or entirely absent. |
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| | Vaccines and Immune Suppression citations |
| | The effect of Edmonston-Zagreb and Schwarz measles vaccines on immune response in infants. | | | Special concern rests in the fact that in 4 of the subjects the T-helper cells fell to levels found in active AIDS patients. | | | Therefore, measles immunization resulted in suppression of lymphoproliferation, which was most evident in infants with the highest antibody responses and most immune activation. |
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| | Immune suppression |
| | It's also associated with disease progression and a common side effect of standard treatments. | | | {beta}2-microglobulin -[associated with NHL progression] as a negative regulator of the immune system: high concentrations of the protein inhibit in vitro generation of functional dendritic cells. | | | Immune suppression is a know risk factor for developing NHL. |
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http://www.lymphomation.org/about-immune-suppression.htm
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| | Does exposure to UV radiation induce a shift to a Th-2-like immune reaction? |
| | In addition to being the primary cause of skin cancer, UV radiation is immune suppressive and there appears to be a link between the ability of UV to suppress the immune response and induce skin cancer. | | | The state of the art may have changed since the publication date. | | | In particular, we have found that keratinocyte-derived interleukin (IL)-10 is responsible for the systemic impairment of antigen-presenting cell function and the UV-induced suppression of delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH). |
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http://www.aegis.com/aidsline/1996/dec/M96C0743.html
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| | The Body: Use of Poppers Associated with Immune Suppression and Tumor Growth |
| | Prior studies by the same researchers found that exposure to poppers suppressed certain immune functions. | | | The researchers found that immune function was restored 14 days after stopping exposure. | | | This is the first study in which tumor growth was directly associated with exposure to the inhalants. |
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http://www.thebody.com/step/summer99/poppers.html
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| | Immunotec Research Ltd. |
| | Glutathione is an essential component of our immune system | | | Glutathione has three major roles in the immune system: Antioxidant, Immune booster and Detoxifier. | | | In fact, Immunocal is considered a "nutraceutical" and is different from other protein supplements in its ability to support the immune system. |
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| | Forum on Opportunistic Infections: antibodies and immune suppression |
| | It can be caused by diseases, like HIV, can be an inherited problem, and can be caused by medicines used to treat other problems or to prevent rjection of a transplanted organ. | | | Each cause of immune suppression acts a bit differently, and even though the end result is a damaged immune system, the damage is manifested differently in each case. | | | says, when the immune system is suppressed, it stops producing lymphocytes, isn't true then that antibodies, which are produced by lymphocytes, would stop being produced. |
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http://www.thebody.com/Forums/AIDS/Infections/Current/Q69752.qna
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| | Clinnimmune-Immunotoxicology Lab |
| | The purpose of this research is to elucidate the mechanism by which cigarette smoke suppresses the cellular immune system in the lungs and lung-associated lymph nodes, a phenomenon that renders smokers more susceptible to respiratory tract infections and cancer. | | | Suppression of human IL-1b, IL-2, IFNg and TNFa by cigarette smoke extracts. | | | Brian M. Freed, Ph.D. Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, claiming more that 400,000 lives per year. |
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http://www.clinimmune.com/immunotoxicologylab/smokingresearch.htm
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| | PA-04-157: Research on Malignancies in AIDS and Acquired Immune Suppression |
| | The (treated) natural history of cancers and pre-neoplastic changes in situations where the temporality of observed events, including timing of first infection or reactivation of existing infection, may be addressed | | | The incidence and trends of cancers associated with long-term immune suppression in the era of HAART and HIV disease, and organ transplantation including rare or longer latency malignancies (e.g., hepatocellular carcinoma, and seminoma) | | | This is consistent with the PHS mission to protect and advance the physical and mental health of the American people. |
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http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-04-157.html
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| | The Ryan T. Caulfield Foundation: Lupus, Lupus Nephritis, Arthritis, Auto Immune, Immune Suppression, Lupus-white/male, ... |
| | Ryan can no longer continue to fight against Lupus, but in his name and with the same courage and strength that he lived his life, his family and friends will continue the fight for him until there is a cure. | | | The Ryan T. Caulfield Foundation: Lupus, Lupus Nephritis, Arthritis, Auto Immune, Immune Suppression, Lupus-white/male, LI Athletics, Systemic SLE, Connective Tissue Disease, Bethpage LI, Bethpage LI Sports, Long Island Sports, Long Island Baseball, Long Island Football, New York Tech Baseball |
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http://www.rtcfoundation.org
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| | Is Cortisol - About Cortisol |
| | Chronically elevated cortisol levels lead to muscle loss, fat gain, immune suppression and reduced... | | | Prolonged stress and cortisol exposure can also damage heart and blood vessels... |
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http://www.about-cortisol.com/info/is-cortisol.html
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