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Researchers identify six “words” used by specific immune cells to call up immune defense genes
UCLA life scientists have identified six words that specific immune cells use to call up immune defense genes an important step toward understanding the language the body uses to marshal responses to threats.
In addition, they discovered that the incorrect use of two of these words can activate the wrong genes, resulting in the autoimmune disease known as Sjögren s syndrome. The research, conducted in mice, is published this week in the peer-reviewed journal
Immunity (Cell Press).
Cells have evolved an immune response code, or language. We have identified some words in that language, and we know these words are important because of what happens when they are misused. Now we need to understand the meaning of the words, and we are making rapid progress. It s as exciting as when archaeologists discovered the Rosetta stone and could begin to read Egyptian hieroglyphs.
In this image from a microscopy video, scientists listen to macrophages as they responded to an immune threat. Credit: Brooks Taylor/ UCLA Life Sciences Read Time:
UCLA life scientists have identified six words that specific immune cells use to call up immune defense genes an important step toward understanding the language the body uses to marshal responses to threats.
In addition, they discovered that the incorrect use of two of these words can activate the wrong genes, resulting in the autoimmune disease known as Sjögren s syndrome. The research, conducted in mice, is published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Immunity (Cell Press).
Brooks Taylor/UCLA Life Sciences
In this image from a microscopy video, scientists “listen” to macrophages as they responded to an immune threat.
UCLA life scientists have identified six “words” that specific immune cells use to call up immune defense genes an important step toward understanding the language the body uses to marshal responses to threats.
In addition, they discovered that the incorrect use of two of these words can activate the wrong genes, resulting in the autoimmune disease known as Sjögren’s syndrome. The research, conducted in mice, is published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Immunity (Cell Press).