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Immune 50: Red blood cells are immune sentinels

  • November 11, 2021
  • Tagged as: anemia, COVID-19, DNA, immune, immunology, innate immunity, macrophage, red blood cell, sepsis, Tlr9

Immune reviews evidence that toll-like receptor 9 on the surface of red blood cells binds DNA, leading to uptake by macrophages and innate immune activation.

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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.

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Immune 43: CAR-NK and CAR-MAC, thinking outside the CAR-T cell box

  • March 24, 2021
  • Tagged as: cancer, CAR-MAC, CAR-NK, CAR-T cell therapy, immune, immunology, macrophage, NK cell, tumor

On this episode of Immune, Cindy provides an update on CAR-T cell therapy of cancers and introduces two new approaches that utilize NK cells and macrophages and their use in treating solid tumors.

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Immune 37: Black in Immuno

  • November 16, 2020
  • Tagged as: black in immune, Black voices in immunology, dendritic cell, diversity, immune, immunology, macrophage, NK cell, systemic racism, T cell

Alexis, Joel, Elaine, Justine, and Evonne join Immune to discuss their careers, their research, and a platform created by a collective of Black immunologists and allies aimed at amplifying, celebrating and supporting Black voices in immunology.

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Immune 1: Some like it hot

  • November 1, 2017
  • Tagged as: atherosclerosis, bone marrow, fever, immune, immunology, macrophage, monocytes, thermogenesis, thermoregulation, UPC1

Cindy, Steph, and Vincent launch a new podcast, Immune, and talk about how warm temperature protects against atherosclerosis by regulating monocyte migration into the blood.

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