Cytokine Blog Posts

English: Pit of an avocado Deutsch: Kern einer Avocado der Sorte "Hass". (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Consuming half of a fresh Hass avocado with a burger may counteract the protein Interleukin-6 (IL-6), a measure of inflammation, compared to eating a...

In autoimmune disease, a network of diverse cytokines is produced in association with disease susceptibility to constitute the ‘cytokine milieu’ that drives chronic inflammation. It remains elusive how cytokines interact in such a complex network...

Evolving evidence suggests that brain inflammation and the buildup of proinflammatory cytokine increases the risk for cognitive decline and cognitive dysfunction. Interleukin-1β (IL-1β), acting via poorly understood mechanisms, appears to be a key...

Pathological changes typical of Alzheimer's disease were significantly reduced in mice by blockade of an immune system transmitter. A research team from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the University of Zurich has just published a new ther...

Conti and his team were looking for biological pathways that could connect the immune system's inflammatory response to the damage seen in dopaminergic neurons. After searching human genomics databases, the team's attention was caught by a gene encod...

Soluble cytokine receptors are normal constituents of body fluids that regulate peripheral cytokine and lymphoid activity and whose levels are increased in states of immune activation. Soluble interleukin-6 receptor (sIL-6R) levels positively corr...

Voluntary exercise is known to have an antidepressant effect. However, the underlying mechanism for this antidepressant action of exercise remains unclear, and little progress has been made in identifying genes that are directl...

Blood levels of a protein that helps regulate inflammation ( Interleukin 6 : IL6) may also serve as a red flag for relapse in some schizophrenia patients, researchers said.pub-5799224524264318...

Pro-inflammatory stimuli, including cytokines like Interleukin-1beta, Interleukin-6 and Interferon-gamma, in the brain have been proposed to exacerbate existing Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology by increasing amyloidogenic processing of APP and...

Maternal infection is a risk factor for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia (SZ). Indeed, modeling this risk factor in mice through maternal immune activation (MIA) causes ASD- and SZ-like neuropathologies and behaviors in the offspri...

Schizophrenia is associated with various abnormalities in the immune system including elevated levels of Interleukin-18 (IL-18), a potent inflammatory cytokine in T-helper 1 (Th1) responses. The aim of this study was to assess the clinical signifi...

Image via WikipediaThe cytokine is granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating-factor (CSF2) which controls the production, differentiation, and function of granulocytes and macrophages. Related articlesImmunolocalization of influenza A virus and ma...