Recent advances in glial cell biology have unveiled their heterogeneity and crucial functions in modulating neural activity. Accumulating evidence indicates ...

Within minutes of fertilization, the egg of a fruit fly becomes a scene from the battle of the sexes. The egg attacks and ...

Within minutes of fertilization, the egg of a fruit fly becomes a scene from the battle of the sexes. The egg attacks and destroys the cellular “power plants,” or mitochondria, from the sperm that had ...

Analysis of genome-wide spatial transcriptomics data reveals cell-type specific subcellular RNA localization, and a subset of genes show significantly high correlation between spatial patterning and 3 ...

Used clinically since the 1920s, corticosteroids interrupt multiple steps in immune activation because of the ubiquitous expression of corticosteroid receptors. Corticosteroids inhibit antigen ...

For example, neutropenia can be secondary to the underlying neoplasm or it can be a consequence of chemotherapy. Neoplasms are also associated with locally impaired host defenses. In lung cancer ...

Correspondence to Dr Jun Yu, Institute of Digestive Disease and The Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong; junyu{at}cuhk.edu.hk The gut ...

90 A further example of overlap between inflammation and coagulation is represented by the procoagulant molecule tissue factor. Its expression is increased in the microvasculature of the inflamed ...