A discovery published in Nature Immunology has shed light on why the immune system is less aggressive toward self-antigens, ...

The immune system is the body’s tool for preventing ... and develop into B lymphocytes (B cells); others travel to the thymus and become T lymphocytes (T cells). These two cell types have ...

Dave Coulier says he is celebrating a significant victory in his health journey after being cancer-free post-diagnosis with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma last year. The 65-year-old actor underwent six ...

It’s a fast-growing cancer that can start in your lymph nodes or related organs like your thymus, spleen ... lymphoma if you have a weakened immune system (the body’s defense system against ...

Thus it is shown that IL-7Rα is a component of both the IL-7 and TSLP receptors, which helps to explain why deletion of the gene that encodes IL-7Rα affects the lymphoid system more severely ...

As our understanding of the immune ... system; HIS mouse) model, demonstrating the importance of CD4+ Tfh and Tph cells for the disease onset. They clarified the conditions under which these T cells ...

have no spleen or a spleen that does not function properly, including sickle cell disease have a decreased immune system and are at increased risk of pneumococcal infection, for example ...

This important study utilizes humanized mice, in which human immune cells are introduced into immune ... and PNA in serial tissue sections of spleen from HIS mice with mouse vs human thymus at <20W, ...