Their lungs and brain and skin are immature, they are very vulnerable to infection and we can't get (intravenous) lines in to deliver the medicine they need.
Its goal is to create pills that unlock the potential of stem cells already situated inside the brain, skin, and bone marrow.
The product has antibacterial, antiviral, and anti-fungal properties, and has also been shown in preclinical laboratory tests to have promise against some cancers, particularly skin and brain cancers, while causing little to no side effects, McGuinness said.
In lupus the body's immune system turns on itself and produces "autoantibodies" that attack the joints, skin, kidneys, heart and brain.
Rothberg's 14-year-old daughter, the oldest of his five kids, has a mild form of an inherited disease called tuberous sclerosis complex, a relatively rare disorder (50, 000 or so Americans have it) that can cause benign tumors in the heart, kidney, skin, lungs, eyes and brain, where seizures can occur.
Other autoimmune forms include dermatitis herpetiformis, which causes itchy skin lesions, and gluten ataxia, which affects brain tissue, resulting in unsteady gait and lack of motor control.
The disease affects many parts of the body including the joints, the skin, kidneys, lungs, heart, and the brain.
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Only her skin and soft cranial tissues stand between the outside world and her brain, and that's not enough.
He described the potential of using a patient's own skin cells and a donor egg to produce neural cells that would be injected into the brain.
It works on the theory that traumatic memories have not been properly processed by the brain, but can be reprocessed correctly via therapy involving eye movement, and using sounds or taps to the skin while going through the past traumas.
That includes several people who arrived with legs attached by just a little skin, a 3-year-old boy with a head wound and bleeding on the brain, and a little girl riddled with nails.
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