The brain constantly engages in dialogue with the body's immune system. Such communication appears aimed at ensuring a delicate balance between defending against injury and infection and guarding healthy tissue.
Washington University School of Medicine Nov 1 2024 The brain constantly engages in dialogue with the body's immune system. Such communication appears aimed at ensuring a delicate balance between defending against injury and infection and guarding healthy tissue.
"We have found guardian brain peptides that actively engage with the immune system to keep it in check, possibly preventing destructive immune responses," said Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology & Immunology and a BJC Investigator at WashU Medicine.
Immune surveillance involves a subset of T cells that can initiate an immune response when alerted to a threat. That alert comes in the form of a tiny protein fragment – a sample of the potential threat – displayed on the surface of another group of presenting immune cells. If T cells deem the protein fragment threatening, they mount an attack.
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