Immunology

New Immunology Study Results Reported from Washington University

Published in Immunotherapy Weekly, June 8th, 2011

2011 JUN 8 -- According to recent research published in the journal Immunological Reviews, "Immune responses during infection, injury, and cancer proceed in the presence of tissue injury and cell death. Consequently, the system must deal with its own dead cells while it determines the appropriate response to the invader."

"As apoptotic cells are known to induce immune tolerance and necrotic cells can be potent stimulators of immunity, this decision becomes more complex. The key to understanding the immunologic choices made during cell death is to examine the mechanisms of tolerance induction by dying cells and then relate them to the mechanisms of...

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Source: Immunotherapy Weekly (2011-06-08)

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