Human exposure to toxic particles drives various diseases. Examples include gout, an acute arthritis driven by monosodium ...

This article explores the complex roles of cytokine networks in the development and progression of autoimmune diseases.

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Extensive research supports the fact that unresolved grief contributes to inflammation and negative health consequences.

Investigators analyzed blood samples from patients on dialysis to study uremic toxins in association with renal anemia pathogenesis.

In response, the immune system sends out an army of chemicals, called pro-inflammatory cytokines, to attack the invaders. “Think of inflammation as a ‘sickness behavior,’” says Madhukar ...

Inflammatory mediators like cytokines and chemokines play a key role in driving age-related and postmenopausal breast cancer progression and immune system changes.

The magnitude of this inflammatory response is tightly controlled by host-derived cytokines, which mediate lung inflammation by serving as leukocyte chemoattractants, leukocyte-activating factors ...

In diseases due to exposure to toxic particles like gout, macrophages elicit separate pathways for inflammation and lysosomal ...