The right messenger for a healthy immune response
Monday, July 20, 2009 - 12:22
in Health & Medicine
Researchers from the Molecular Immunology group at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany have now shown that Beta-Interferon also plays a crucial role during an immune response: without Beta-Interferon immune cells are unable to show 'wanted posters' of pathogens to other cells. As a consequence, these cells will not recognise the pathogen and the immune response does not start properly. The group's results have now been published in the current issue of the scientific magazine Journal of Immunology...