In collaboration with Medical Detection Dogs, a team at Imperial College London has discovered dogs can detect bacteria like ...

The cells in human bodies are subject to both chemical and mechanical forces. But until recently, scientists have not ...

Instead of allowing inflammation to subside, CXCL4 prevents immune suppression, keeping pDCs in a state of chronic activation and promoting skin fibrosis. “We show that CXCL4 prevents the normal ...

Moreover, the cells and soluble factors participating in this response in liver are also similar to those in parenchymal injury to kidney, lung, or skin. Fibrosis occurs earliest in regions where ...

The subcutaneous tissue, however, showed broad bands of fibrosis intersecting in a haphazard fashion between lobules of mature adipose tissue without a significant inflammatory component (Figure 2).