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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

Immune 27: Trained immunity

  • January 11, 2020
  • Tagged as: enhancer, H3K4Me1, immune, immune memory, immunology, innate immunity, LPS, methylation, NK cells, sepsis

Steph explains how sepsis induces protective immune memory in NK cells, via histone methylation of the interferon gamma enhancer.

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