inflammation

Male patients who recover from mild COVID-19 have baseline immune states primed to mount stronger responses to future challenges than female patients.

Clinicians and researchers teamed up to investigate how inappropriate proinflammatory mechanisms contribute to the pathogenesis of drug-refractory epilepsy.

Immune cells and pain neurons form complex partnerships to protect our bodies from pathogens, new research reveals.

Regulatory T cells in the colon travel to muscles to promote wound healing in mice, raising questions about how antibiotics may impact injury recovery.

Males recovered from mild COVID-19 have baseline immune states primed to mount stronger responses to future challenges.

Researchers learned how IGFBP7, a senescence signaling protein and biomarker, promotes cardiac remodeling and cellular aging.

Clinicians and researchers teamed up to investigate how inappropriate proinflammatory mechanisms contribute to the pathogenesis of drug-refractory epilepsy.

Researchers found that shifted sleep/wake cycles in young rats result in increased functional deficits and mortality following stroke later in life.

Data from postmortem brain tissues adds to the evidence that inflammation is associated with autism.

The HIV protein Nef can cause long-term genetic changes that lead to hyperreactive immune cells, according to research in human cells and mice. 

Pregnancy-induced changes in the immune system are key to a successful birth. Understanding those changes could allow researchers to protect both mother and child.

Aberrant immune activation, the main cause of prematurity and stillbirths, could be preventable through interventions such as maternal vaccination. 

In people with the genetic condition, inflammation can cause a mild infection to snowball out of control, a study finds.