A new study in The Journal of Immunology reveals how a high-fat diet may impair the immune system's ability to respond to infection by impacting the function of neutrophils, one of the first immune ...

Hospitalized older adults with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and sepsis exhibit impaired neutrophil function; however, glycolytic metabolism is not the driver of neutrophil dysfunction. This ...

New research maps how bone marrow changes in acute myeloid leukemia disrupt neutrophil development and boost the risk for ...

Intracerebral hemorrhages (ICH) account for 15% of strokes but a disproportionate 50% of all stroke deaths. An ICH occurs ...

A more-developed version of the assay used in this study may help manage patients with acute decompensation of liver cirrhosis or acute-on-chronic liver failure before liver transplantation. Patients ...

This scanning electron microscopy image captures the moment where degranulating mast cells (pseudo-colored in sepia) attract and start to incorporate living neutrophils (pseudo-colored in cyan), ...

Scientists identify WASH protein complex as a gatekeeper of neutrophil-driven inflammation. A team led by Scripps Research scientists has uncovered key details of an immune-cell process that ...

Department of Social Medicine, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan Shigeyuki Nakaji, MD, PhD, Department of Social Medicine, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu-cho, Hirosaki, ...

A Wayne State University study published in Nature Communications revealed that Zika virus exposure during pregnancy causes ...

Prenatal Zika exposure can alter a child’s immune system, increasing susceptibility to infections and inflammatory diseases ...