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Study suggests skipping breakfast might harm immune system
Updated : 3 years ago IST
According to a recent study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, fasting can make it more difficult to fight infections and increase your risk of getting heart disease.
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Skipping breakfast may compromise immune system: Study
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Fasting may be detrimental to fighting off infection, and could lead to an increased risk of heart disease, according to a new study by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Study finds skipping breakfast can compromise immune system
Updated : 3 years ago IST
According to a new study by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai fasting may be detrimental to fighting off infection and could lead to an increased risk of heart disease.
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Researchers reveal role of polyphenols in regulating inflammatory immune r
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PCB2DG, an anti-inflammatory polyphenol, inhibits glutamine absorption by targeting and directly interacting with the main glutamine transporter protein, alanine serine cysteine transporter 2 (ASCT2). This reduction in intracellular glutamine accumulation in CD4+ T cells also inhibits the pr
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Obesity along with Diabetes: A Lethal Combination
Updated : 3 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 20 (ANI/SRV): Imagine a secret enemy base living next door like innocent neighbors. Although it appears inactive and harmless, it is quietly working around the clock to carry out lethal attacks on your city. The excess fat in obese patients is similar; it appears
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Researchers reveal why cancer patients do not react to immunotherapy
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Cancer treatment has transformed thanks to immunotherapy. The five-year survival rate for advanced melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer, has climbed from less than 10% to more than 50% since the development of immunotherapy in 2011. Sadly, immunotherapy only works on about half of mel
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Cancer patients who do not react to immunotherapy lack crucial immune cell
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Immunotherapy has changed cancer treatment. Since the introduction of immunotherapy in 2011, the five-year survival rate in advanced melanoma, the most lethal form of skin cancer, has increased from less than 10% to more than 50%. Unfortunately, only approximately half of melanoma patients r
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Pungent ginger compound puts immune cells on heightened alert: Research
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Ginger is known for activating the immune system. This argument is now supported by new findings from the Leibniz Center for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich. Little doses of a spicy ginger component heightened white blood cell alertness in laboratory testing. This
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Researchers explore how brain's immune system worsens epilepsy
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In a new study, the University of Iowa biologists have lain out a chain of events that can cause seizures, the most common manifestation of epilepsy, to worsen.
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Scientists identify protein that's crucial to tumor cells' metabolism
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Tumor cells typically alter their energy metabolism and increase glucose uptake to support their rapid division and spread. This limits glucose availability for immune cells and therefore dampens the body's anti-cancer immune response.
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Mother's blessing: Microbiota from mothers regulates lung immunity in newb
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A new study led by Bruno Silva Santos, group leader and vice-director at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular Joo Lobo Antunes (iMM; Portugal), and published in the scientific journal Cell Reports discovered that T cells influence the transfer of maternal microbiota during birth and nursing,
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Study reveals how natural killer immune cells can change tissue inflammati
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Researchers have discovered a previously unidentified function of "natural killer" (NK) immune cells, which has increased our understanding of how the immune system is controlled to prevent disease.
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