Natural metabolite can suppress inflammation

Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 17:01 in Health & Medicine

An international group of scientists from US, Canada, Germany and Russia has revealed a substance produced in humans that can suppress the pro-inflammatory activity of macrophages – specific cells of immune system. The substance known as itaconate is released in large quantities by macrophages themselves, but until now its role remained poorly studied. Now scientists […]

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