Immune sensors suppress colitis-associated cancer

Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 01:14 in Health & Medicine

Particular components of inflammasomes -- protein complexes needed for generating immune responses to pathogens and cellular damage -- lessen the severity of colitis and colitis-associated colon cancer in mice, according to a new study.

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