overactive

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As the animals reached adulthood, this disruption led to an overactive immune response and chronic inflammation, significantly increasing the risk of inflammatory gut diseases and obesity.

From Science Daily • Dec. 26, 2025

Researchers are probing the pill’s efficacy in patients with Type 2 inflammatory diseases, which are triggered by an overactive immune response.

From Barron's • Dec. 8, 2025

“I have a prescription for an overactive bladder.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

She credits what her father jokes is “an overactive sense of justice” to her grandparents, who ran a corner store in Santa Ana in the 1940s.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

It occurs when an overactive immune system begins attacking the cells that create pigment, or color, in the skin.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish