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© Lindsay Cameron/UC Davis Branching nerve cells.The nervous and immune systems have long been thought to be separate entities in the body, but new research has uncovered a direct cellular interaction between the two. Scientists from Harvard Medical School, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, MIT, and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have found that pain-sensing neurons surround lymph nodes in mice, and can modulate the activity of these small organs, which are key parts of the immune system. The new research, published in Cell, reveals the cells that mediate the crosstalk between the nervous and immune systems. It also paves the way for more research on how the nervous system regulates immune responses, for example, during an infection.

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