Une réponse immunitaire excessive peut s’avérer mortelle. De nouveaux travaux décryptent les mécanismes à l’œuvre dans ces réactions incontrôlées, révélant de nouvelles cibles thérapeutiques.
- Research Assistant Professor of Immunology, Tufts University
An overactive immune response to infection can be deadly. Studying how one key player called tumor necrosis factor, or TNF, induces lethal immune responses could provide new treatment targets.
Coinfections with bacteria can make viral infections even deadlier. Researchers have identified a protein in immune cells that may play a role in fighting both types of pathogens.
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