Researchers discovered an unexpected link between zinc deficiency, the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-13 (IL-13), and Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection and demonstrated that blocking IL-13 ...
The innate immune system releases multiple inflammatory cytokines in response to pathogens, and these cytokines directly combat the infectious agent and recruit additional immune responses.
Figure 1. Cytokines involved in acute and chronic inflammatory responses (DOI:10.2741/a171). Image Credit: Sino Biological Inc. Disturbance in levels of the key pro-inflammatory cytokines ...
Infectious and non-infectious respiratory diseases are regarded as accelerated-age conditions in which chronic inflammation, exacerbated/dysregulated immune responses, and immunological senescence ...
Researchers discovered an unexpected link between zinc deficiency, the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-13 (IL-13), and Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection and demonstrated that blocking IL-13 ...
The magnitude of this inflammatory response is tightly controlled by host-derived cytokines, which mediate lung inflammation by serving as leukocyte chemoattractants, leukocyte-activating factors ...