Mobilizing White Blood Cells To The Lung: New Discovery Could Lead To An Improved Influenza Vaccine
Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 23:21
in Health & Medicine
New findings shed new light on how a previously-unknown messaging mechanism within the human immune system prompts specific influenza-fighting cells to the lung airways during an infection. Although researchers have known for some time that white blood cells congregating in the lung and directly attacking the virus play an important role in defending against influenza, it has never been clear how exactly these white blood cells know when they are required in the lung.