Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) is a disorder of chronic ... together with the pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-6 and TNF in FMS patients as compared to sedentary controls. We hypothesize that thalamic mast ...

Last year, the WWE Superstar revealed she was suffering with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. It is a rare condition that can cause swelling, itching, vomiting and diarrhea, among other more serious ...

Recent research has explored the relationship between Horner's syndrome and various medical procedures, including epidural anesthesia, highlighting the potential for this syndrome to occur as a ...

As noted above, stellate cell activation is the central event in hepatic fibrosis. Activation consists of 2 major phases: (1) initiation (also called apreinflammatory stage) and (2) perpetuation ...

WHILE examining the histology of tuberculoid and lepromatous skin lesions of leprosy, we noted that there were many cells containing ... in both types of the disease. These granules were spherical ...

more precisely steer T cell activation and direct T cell differentiation. Synthetic artificial antigen presenting cells (aAPCs) decorated with T cell-activating ligands are being developed to induce ...

Objective Primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) is characterised by chronic hyperactivation of B lymphocytes. Salivary gland epithelial cells (SGECs) could play a role in promoting B-lymphocyte activation ...

Xenon is regularly used as an anesthesia agent ... protective response from the brain’s unique immune cells, called microglia, and this activation in turn helped their brain fend off the ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by ... and predicting the role of structural variation in disease. Structural variation is a change in the structure of ...

This critical transition state represents a short window where cells possess both healthy and cancerous characteristics. Cancer development occurs gradually as DNA changes build up in healthy cells ...

Study finds surprising way that genetic mutation causes Huntington's disease, transforming understanding of the disorder Researchers studying brain cells from Huntington's patients show that the ...