Tag: helminth

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Immune 71: Can parasitic worms prevent pandemics?

September 8, 2023
Tagged as: coronavirus, COVID-19, helminth, immune, immunology, macrophage, pandemic, roundworm, SARS-CoV-2, T cell

Immune explains how, in a mouse model of roundworm infection with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, exposure to lung-migrating helminths protects mice against SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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Immune 62: Every cell is an immune cell with De’Broski Herbert

December 2, 2022
Tagged as: helminth, immune, immunology, mucosal immunity, neuroimmunology, parasite, type 2 immunity

De’Broski joins immune to reveal his remarkable career path and the research of his laboratory on neuroimmunology and the immune response to parasite infections.

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Immune 49: I fell in love with worms with Keke Fairfax

October 13, 2021
Tagged as: B cells, egg antigen, helminth, IL-4, immune, immunology, immunometabolism, macrophage, schistosomiasis

Keke Fairfax joins Immune to discuss the work from her laboratory on understanding how maternal schistosomiasis impairs IL-4 production and B cell expansion in offspring, and modulation of macrophage immunometabolism by helminths.

Tag: helminth

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