Macrophages can alternate between two states: an inflammatory state for fighting infection and a non-inflammatory state for ...

At the cellular level, the mechanics of how muscle tissue repair occurs gets complicated. There are significant differences ...

You can activate the macrophage and make the muscle twitch subtly almost immediately," Jankowski says. Meanwhile, the ...

Immunotherapy, which harnesses our body's own immune system to fight cancer, has revolutionized modern oncology. Yet despite ...

At the cellular level, the mechanics of how muscle tissue repair occurs gets complicated. There are significant differences between, say, tearing a ...

Researchers Sumika Kato, Takeo Kubo, and Taro Fukazawa of the University of Tokyo have discovered that c1qtnf3, a secreting ...

At the microscopic scale, the process behind muscle repair becomes increasingly complex. Healing also varies depending on the type of damage involved, as the body responds very differently to an acute ...

NINJ1 blocks HSV-1 entry into mouse macrophages independent of its role in cell death, resulting in greater secretion of pro ...

A variant of the Aeromonas bacterium promoted colon inflammation in mice and was detected in stools and colon tissue from ...

Trained immunity is reshaping our understanding of host defense by demonstrating that innate immune cells once thought to lack memory can be reprogrammed to mount heightened responses to subsequent ...

By electrically stimulating macrophages, scientists at Trinity College Dublin have found a way to calm inflammation and promote faster healing. The process turns these immune cells into ...