Immunology
Exposure to influential bacteria begins before we are born, new evidence confirms
Australian researchers have laid to rest a longstanding controversy: is the womb sterile?
Jun 5, 2019
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News tagged with inflammatory mediators
Inflammatory disorders
Risk of premature death in patients with childhood immune-mediated inflammatory disease over three times greater
Patients with a pediatric onset immune-mediated inflammatory disease (pIMID) have a significantly higher risk of premature death, according to new research being presented today at the 54th Annual Meeting of the European ...
Jun 24, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers discover a new mechanism of cancer immune defense
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg has gained new insights into how inflammatory mediators of pathogen defense can remotely drive cancer cells into death—an important ...
Jun 23, 2023
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Medical research
Researchers successfully prevent peanut allergic reactions in mice, blocking onset in its tracks
An allergen-specific inhibitor devised by researchers at the University of Notre Dame and the Indiana University School of Medicine has successfully prevented potentially life-threatening allergic responses to peanuts.
Feb 8, 2023
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Medical research
Researchers discover molecular link between circadian clock disturbances and inflammatory diseases
Scientists have known for some time that throwing off the body's circadian rhythm can negatively affect body chemistry. In fact, workers whose sleep-wake cycles are disrupted by night shifts are more susceptible to chronic ...
Aug 1, 2012
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Inflammatory disorders
A solution to reducing inflammation
Research carried out at The University of Manchester has found further evidence that a simple solution, which is already used in IV drips, is an effective treatment for reducing inflammation.
Sep 20, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Inflammation markers associated with COVID-19 during pregnancy may signal adverse impacts to long-term infant health
New research results demonstrate how inflammation from a COVID-19 infection during pregnancy could potentially impact long-term infant health, including infant growth and brain development. Published in the Journal of Perinatology, ...
Apr 25, 2022
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Medical research
Active resolution of inflammation: No evidence that specialized lipid messengers are involved
Inflammation is the result of an active defense reaction by our immune system. It mostly disappears by itself. It was once assumed to be a passive process because the immune cells involved, having done their work, gradually ...
Apr 20, 2022
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Immunology
Defense against intestinal infection in organism is affected by prostaglandin E2
The treatment of intestinal infections caused by some strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli, present in unsanitized or contaminated foods, may have a new ally.
Nov 15, 2018
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Medications
Common blood pressure medications linked to lower risk of total knee replacement
Among patients with knee pain, those who take a widely used class of blood pressure-lowering medications called beta-blockers appear to have a lower risk of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for the treatment of advanced osteoarthritis ...
Sep 6, 2023
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