Receptor on macrophages key to TNF regulation: brain's role in inflammatory diseases.(News)(tumor necrosis factor )
Publication: Skin & Allergy News
Publication Date: 01-DEC-03
Author: Jancin, Bruce
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BARCELONA, SPAIN -- Valuable new mechanistic insight has been gained into a phenomenon clinicians have long known to be true: The nervous system can regulate inflammation, Dr. Kristian Thestrup-Pedersen said at the 12th Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.
He singled out as a particularly important recent advance in dermatology the discovery that the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha-7 subunit located on the surface of macrophages is an essential regulator of the release of...
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