Sentence examples for increased immunologic from inspiring English sources

It is unclear if vitamin D insufficiency confers an increased likelihood of a genetically susceptible individual to progress to a full autoimmune disease or if vitamin D insufficiency is permissive for increased immunologic activation and disease activity or both.

On the contrary, syndromes suggestive of increased immunologic response such as uveitis (8 ), pneumonitis (9, 10 ), and rarely, cases of lymphocytic arthritis (11, 12 ) have been reported, although only uveitis has been epidemiologically associated with HTLV-I (8 ).

In addition, acute brain injury is also a cause of cerebral salt wasting, and also severe brain injury leading to brain death results in haemodynamic instability, hormonal disturbance and increased immunologic response, triggering an inflammatory cascade in several organs, including the kidney.

Strategies for immunosuppression include the design of individualized protocols with the objective to increase immunologic efficacy with a reduced number and severity of secondary effects, according to the clinical status and the posttransplant complications: renal failure, de novo neoplasia, recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma.

The use of microneedles has the potential of both increasing the immunologic response by targeting the skin and providing a simple-to-use delivery system for reliable administration without specialized training.

Grass allergen-specific immunotherapy increases the immunologic tolerance towards grass pollen by targeting the underlying cause of the allergic disease, 4 thereby reducing the allergic symptoms while providing a long-lasting effect.

5-AZA-CdR enhances the graft-versus leukemia effect, which has the potential to increase the immunologic therapeutic efficacy of allogeneic transplantation [ 57]. 5-AZA-CdR also induces the upregulation of DNA repair genes and angiogenesis inhibitor genes [ 58].

Cooper's epidemiologic study of human exposure to mercury reveals increased rates of immunologic disease.

In addition to the diagnosed SLE, there is an increased prevalence of reported immunologic symptoms and or problems in the exposed population compared to controls.

Especially during the past decade, orthopoxvirus (OPV) infections have increased worldwide, and the immunologic status of the population against OPV is a major risk factor for its reemergence (6 ).

The immunogenicity of the polymer component of two mPEG-protein conjugates suggests that patients who have been treated previously with one PEGylated drug may be at increased risk of adverse immunologic responses to a second PEGylated drug.