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Scientists identify the brain cells that regulate inflammation, and pinpoint how they keep tabs on the immune response.
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Giorgia Guglielmi
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Giorgia Guglielmi is a science journalist in Basel, Switzerland.
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Scientists have long known that the brain plays a part in the immune system — but how it does so has been a mystery. Now, scientists have identified cells in the brainstem that sense immune cues from the periphery of the body and act as master regulators of the body’s inflammatory response.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01259-2
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Jin, H., Li, M., Jeong, E., Castro-Martinez, F. & Zuker, C. S. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07469-y (2024).
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