Innate Immunity is a nonspecific host defense mechanism against foreign antigens. It is the first line of defense in a host and occurs immediately or within hours after exposure. This type of immunity ...
People with hard-to-treat asthma often have to use medicines such as systemic steroids that broadly suppress the immune ...
Researchers explore the human immune system by looking at the active components, namely the various genes and cells involved. But there is a broad range of these, and observations necessarily produce ...
As part of the body's first line of defense against foreign invaders, macrophages play an integral role in the innate immune ...
Cigarette smoking is prevalent worldwide and causes numerous diseases, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke (CS) causes serious respiratory illnesses is incomplete, and has held back the ...
Dr. Jorge Munera in his laboratory at the Medical University of South Caroilina. Dr. Munera is an MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researcher and an assistant professor in the Department of Regenerative ...
The research was performed in the context of the ImmGenT project within the ImmGen consortium (supported by R24072073). National Institutes of Health grants K00CA222711, GM133351, F31AI176705, ...