Research identifies how viral respiratory infection damages macrophages and suggests treatment with a pre-existing FDA approved drug.

In the 1980s, when Stella Kourembanas, MD, began her career in neonatology, she cared for newborns with pulmonary ...

One possibility is to block the activity of the effector molecules (e.g. cytokines) produced by the macrophages. An alternative approach is to block macrophage function by either altering the ...

Macrophages interact with T cells in order to bring about T cell activation in target organs, and are themselves activated by inflammatory messenger molecules (cytokines) produced by the T cells.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and disease burden worldwide. Macrophages are important components of the internal immune cells, which profoundly affects the internal ...

A new study reveals that Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection exacerbates ulcerative colitis (UC) by driving macrophage ...

Findings reveal macrophages' role in immune modulation through bacterial metabolites, paving the way for improved therapies ...

A new review published in Genes & Diseases highlights macrophage-targeted therapy as a promising frontier in cardiac regeneration and myocardial repair.

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that acts at the interface between the immune system and the hypothalamus –pituitary–adrenal stress axis, but its complete role in ...