#Macrophages

Tomasz Ahrends and coworkers report that "Enteric pathogens induce tissue tolerance and prevent neuronal loss from subsequent infections". A visual inspired by politics with a graphical anstract at the end.https://www.biorxiv.org/
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Celebrating our new publication in @atvbahajournals! We show inflammatory macrophages drive an intermediate valve cell phenotype that may promote the switch from fibrosis to calcification in valve tissue. Awesome working
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1/See our new @plospathogens paper with the Hinton Lab @jay_salsa on the role of the MacAB-TolC efflux pump during infection by invasive #Salmonella isolates from Africa. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008763 2/Whole genome analysis
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Ribas et al. 2020 shows that melanoma PDLi responders have higher levels of pre-treatment HLA gene expr. in bulk tumor RNA relative to non-responders, with the difference being amplified upon
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Several studies are coming out saying that blood LDH (lactate dehydrogenase) levels early in #COVID19 disease correlates with severe disease progression. This is a clue that #pyroptosis may be a
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Increasing evidence points to monocytes and macrophages as key players in the maladaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, COVID-19. A thread with emphasis on key mechanisms
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Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic with Systems Biology Posted April 10, 2020. [Everything we "know" about SARS-CoV-2 now in question!]https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.06.028712v1 The commonly accepted view that SARS-CoV-2 ent
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This is a brilliant thread on the #ChineseCoronaVirus and its treatment but let me share some information regarding its construction and views of American researchers as I received few days
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AstraZeneca Vaccine and clots: this important paper from Germany proves that VITT is not the result of cross-reactivity between anti-spike antibodies and platelet factor 4 (PF4). See thread and links
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CRP - what I wish I’d been taught! This (large!) protein comes as a pentamer of units 23 k-daltons. It has equivalents in almost all species and is found on
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Very interesting hypothesis causally linking hemoglobin metabolism, oxygenation/deoxygenation at the lung and in tissues to Covid-19. So far, no sci. publications on this subject (searched in PUBMED). However, old reviews
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This is a cautionary tale of how anti-Spike antibody may make COVID disease worse. In this study, the authors show that anti-Spike IgG made SARS-CoV disease worse by switching macrophage
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From classic Dengue Fever to Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever. A thread. Dengue is a virus that belongs to the Flaviviridae family and is considered an arthropod-borne virus (Arbovirus). Dengue viruses are
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After many years of hard work, we report on a population of intrinsic (i) enteric-associated neurons (EAN, iEAN) that regulates blood glucose on a microbiota-dependent mannerhttps://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/26/science.ab
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For a year, many have publicly warned our blinkered public health officials not to mix politics, fear and vaccine development. Yet they did and now, that lack of critical thinking
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"Whipple disease" Whipple's disease :is a rare, systemic infectious disease..‍caused by the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei, primarily causes malabsorption but may affect any part of the body including the heart,
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