Overall, this study highlights a hidden danger in common dietary sugars: fructose not only affects metabolism but actively ...

Researchers found that fructose can prime immune cells to overreact to bacterial toxins. In healthy adults, ...

Non-classical monocytes were long thought to play a purely surveillance role in the immune system. With the aid of a novel marker (PD-L1), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers ...

When the immune system mobilizes its troops, antigen-presenting cells play an important role. They can emerge from white blood cells (monocytes) that circulate in the blood. Scientists have now taken ...

The present study evaluates the impact of immune cell populations on metastatic development in a model of spontaneous melanoma [mice expressing the human RET oncogene under the control of the ...

Generations of evolutionary pressure have honed a human immune system that is well poised to combat infectious challenges. However, the very same system can turn against us when it is activated by ...

Aftermath (part of the “Fires of War” collection) by Susan Crile. Inflammation is a key feature of SARS-CoV-2 infection, both during the acute phase of Covid-19 and also as a contributor to post-acute ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 102, No. 33 (Aug. 16, 2005), pp. 11811-11816 (6 pages) Natural killer T cells (NKT cells) expressing a ...

Calgary: Researchers from the University of Calgary have discovered a potentially effective new method for treating bacterial skin infections. The findings of the research were published in the ...