In a study in mice, the researchers found that specially adapted macrophages in the muscle spindles, which were also found in human muscle, directly regulated neural activity and muscle contraction.

Mitochondria, often seen as cellular powerhouses, play a surprising role in immune regulation. Researchers found that ...

Find out why stress can worsen allergy symptoms. Learn about the cellular chain reaction that occurs in the body and how it ...

Cycling macrophages that guzzle ink on the skin of mice help keep tattoos in place, according to a study published yesterday (March 6) in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. This research “shows ...

“The authors really investigated the mechanism of how this particular subtype of macrophages is induced in the flu infection model in mice, so the data and the methods they used are very solid.” When ...

Atherosclerosis risk is elevated in diabetic patients, but the underlying mechanism such as the involvement of macrophages remains unclear. Here, we investigated the underlying mechanism related to ...

Biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside have received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of sex-specific immune responses in obesity ...

Recent studies using a mouse model of immunoglobulin E (IgE ... anti-inflammatory programmed death ligand 2 (PD-L2)-positive macrophages, to clear dead cells at the allergy site, thereby ...