Cornell researchers discover exactly how immune system attacks liver in NAFLD
Fat accumulation in the liver can lead to a multitude of problems associated with the immune system attacking the liver in response.
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First immune system connectivity map could yield better therapies for cancers, infectious diseases
Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have created the first-ever map of immune system connections.
How does the immune system know what’s good for the body and what isn’t?
The immune system’s ability to differentiate a strange pathogen from the cells and tissue of the body is because of an immune cell called T-cells.
New therapies could stop antibiotic-induced damage to gut health
Researchers determined the concentrations at which a specific antibiotic would affect certain strains for more than 800 antibiotic–strain combinations.
Saliva serves as vessel for stomach viruses to travel throughout the body
Your saliva carries trillions of microorganisms, and new research points out that stomach viruses also use it as a mode of traveling inside your body. A
Simply looking at food triggers inflammation in the brain, can impair health in overweight people
Just the sight of food triggers an inflammatory response in the brain.
Gut microbes play an important role in stopping viral infections. Researchers finally know how
A recent study by researchers in Sweden discovered how the gut microbiome helps the immune system develop resistance to viruses.
Harvard studies show that bile acids play key role in gut immunity, inflammation
The studies identify three bile acid metabolites with corresponding bacterial genes that affect inflammation-regulating immune cells.
Fungus in the gut: One type is more friend than foe — when it ‘introduces’ itself first
A new study from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center describes the microorganism Candida albicans, a fungus, as friend rather than foe.
Antibiotics can trigger deadly fungal infections by disrupting gut’s immune system
disrupt immune cells in the gut, increasing risk of the oral condition called thrush, which can be fatal in people with serious illnesses.