by Jeff Hansen, University of Alabama at Birmingham Knowledge of this previously unrecognized mechanism may aid therapy for patients with interleukin-6 signaling mutations and hyper-IgE Syndrome, or HIES. Credit: University of Alabama at Birmingham The immune system has a biological telecommunications system—small proteins known as interleukins that send signals among the leukocyte white blood cells to...
FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG A vitamin D3 deficiency can lead to severe symptoms, for example in people suffering from allergic asthma. This has already been shown in several studies. However, we still do not fully understand how exactly this vitamin influences the cellular inflammatory reaction in the body. A team of researchers from the Department of Molecular Pneumology...
by University de Liege Immunostaining AM ILC2. Credit: P.Loos and A.Hego-ULiège A study conducted by researchers at the University of Liège on group 2 innate lymphoid cells (or ILC2s) shows that the functional reprogramming of these cells following their exposure to viruses allows our body to react differently to exposure to certain respiratory allergens. This study is...
