Medicine Canadian Scientists And Swiss Surgeons Discover the Cause Of Excess Post-surgical Scarring (Medicine) 6 Mar 2021 The finding could improve recovery from abdominal and pelvic surgery The body is amazing at healing itself. However, sometimes it can overdo it. Excess scarring after abdominal and pelvic surgery…
Medicine Antitumoral Effects of LXR Activation ( Medicine) 12 Feb 2021 Macrophages that boost tumor growth Tumor cells are able to avoid the attack of the immune system through several mechanisms. For instance, these can secrete factors that turn macrophages -cells…
Medicine Fungi in the Gut Prime Immunity Against Infection (Medicine) 6 Feb 2021 Common fungi, often present in the gut, teach the immune system how to respond to their more dangerous relatives, according to new research from scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine. Breakdowns…
Biology Hijacking the Host Defenses Gives Bacteria an Advantage (Biology) 29 Jan 2021 A metabolic switch in microbe-fighting macrophages signals bacteria to convert them to hotels with amenities Bacteria that cause life-threatening infections sometimes resort to the nastiest ploy of all: Stealing the…
Medicine Living Macrophages-based Drug Promotes Antitumor Immunotherapy (Medicine) 18 Jan 2021 Immunotherapy is one of the most promising approaches to inhibit tumor growth and metastasis by activating host immune functions. However, so far, immunotherapy still exhibits limitations of efficacy and safety,…
Biology New Insights Into the Control of Inflammation (Biology) 14 Jan 2021 The EGR1 transcription factor has distinct roles in early and late macrophage maturation stages, blunting macrophage activation and inflammation. Scientists at The Wistar Institute discovered that Early Growth Response 1 (EGR1), a…
Neuroscience Helping the Brain’s Immune Cells Regain the Ground State (Neuroscience) 13 Jan 202113 Jan 2021 An anti-inflammatory agent keeps microglia responses short and to the point. Microglia – hairy cells arrayed in dense formation deep within our brain tissue – seemed, in the standard still…
