A UCLA study found that macrophages rely on interferon gamma signaling from past infections to preserve innate defenses.

Cells have sophisticated methods of sensing stimuli and communicating with nearby cells in response to these stimuli. For example, macrophages can sense environmental stimuli—tissue damage, foreign ...

Cytokines play a central role in regulating physiological processes, largely because of their ability to orchestrate intercellular communication. As ...

Scientists in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and MIT have created a new family of tools that, for the first time, illuminates the missing half of how the immune system uses ...

Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute was awarded a five-year $12 million grant by the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to define how cytokines - proteins ...

Studies have demonstrated a critical role of the cytokines thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP), IL-33, and IL-25, produced by epithelial and other cells at mucosal surfaces in response to a wide range ...

Microglial cells, the primary immune cells of the brain and central nervous system, are known to undergo striking morphological changes in response to sensory or neural stimuli. However, the ...

Ovarian cancer treatment faces challenges with high relapse and drug resistance rates, despite initial chemotherapy effectiveness. Cytokines like IL-6 and IL-11 are associated with complex tumor ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found an inverse relationship between cytokine IL-6 and five of the six evaluated cognitive domains.

Many proteins and peptides affect the growth, identity, and function of eukaryotic cells. Very often their effects are highly pleiotropic, making exact boundaries and distinctions between proteins ...