He had Huntington's Chorea, the same disease of the brain and nervous system that had killed his mother.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

Another example is in the nervous system, patients that have Parkinson's disease have too little of a natural ligand called dopamine.

另一个例子有关神经系统,帕金森氏病的患者,缺乏一种叫做多巴胺的天然的配体

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

And those words mean different things: immunogenic means that it stimulates your immune system for a response; pathogenic means that it causes a disease.

这两个词有不同的意义,免疫效应是指,刺激免疫系统产生免疫应答,致病性意指它能使你患病

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

These include rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes and celiac disease, a condition that affects the digestive system.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

We're going to talk about those in more detail in a couple of weeks when we talk about the immune system because these are the cells that perform and regulate the functions of our immune system that protect us from disease.

在后几周的有关免疫的课程上,我们会详细说明的,因为我们免疫系统的功能,要依靠这些细胞去完成和调节,它们使我们免受疾病侵害

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Doctors can only hope that a person's defense system is strong enough to fight the disease.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

Your body's natural defense system needs to be at its strongest to protect you against disease.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

Autoimmune diseases affect the immune system C the body's natural defenses for fighting disease.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Evidence shows that extended periods of cortisol in the body weakens bones, damages nerve cells in the brain and weakens the body's defense system against disease.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Autoimmune diseases affect the immune system, the body's natural defenses for fighting disease.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

Nora Guthrie suffered from a disease that destroys the brain and nervous system.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

These substances can damage the human nervous system and natural defenses against disease.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

Those diseases affect the immune system the body's natural resistance to disease.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

Exercise also improves the body's defense system against disease.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

It weakens the body's natural defense system against disease.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Specter has fought Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system, but says his health is restored and he feels fine.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28