Researchers have discovered a cellular pathway that promotes inflammation in diseases like asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, and multiple sclerosis. Understanding the details of this pathway ...
Oct 7, 2011
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Alcohol is known to worsen the effects of disease, resulting in longer recovery period after trauma, injury or burns. It is also known to impair the anti-viral immune response, especially in the liver, including response ...
Sep 30, 2011
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered new clues about how the intestine maintains friendly relations with the 100 trillion symbiotic bacteria that normally live in the digestive tract.
May 9, 2011
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A team of researchers is beginning to see exactly what the response to threats looks like in the brain at the cellular and molecular levels.
May 3, 2011
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A Mass General team has developed modified criteria that may help health care professionals more accurately identify anaphylaxis, a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction, in infants and young children.
Jun 28, 2024
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One in five U.K. health care workers may not be fully immunized against measles, new research has found.
Jun 27, 2024
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National Jewish Health researchers are looking for ways to identify patients with untreated mild persistent asthma who might benefit from daily inhaled treatment based on inflammatory biomarkers. Their results were published ...
Jun 27, 2024
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NIAID research has led to the availability of a new over-the-counter topical eczema probiotic. The probiotic is based on the discovery by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part ...
Jun 26, 2024
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Eosinophils are specialized cells of our immune system. They are identified by their distinctive granules that stain red when treated with an acidic reagent, eosin, that gave them their name. Eosinophils are typically rare ...
May 22, 2024
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Chemokines are signaling proteins that orchestrate the interaction of immune cells against pathogens and tumors. To understand this complex network, various techniques have been developed to identify chemokine-producing cells.
Apr 25, 2024
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