In a recent Nature Reviews Immunology journal study, researchers assess the role of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in systemic autoimmune and autoinflammatory disorders. Study: Neutrophil ...

A newly identified circadian checkpoint shifts neutrophils into a protective night-like state, reducing inflammatory heart injury while preserving the body’s ability to fight infection. Study: A ...

Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), and Yale ...

Neutrophils are the most abundant immune cells in the body and the first to respond to infection or tissue damage. Yet despite their importance, until now very little was known about how they truly ...

Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), and Yale University (USA) have published a comprehensive review article in the journal ...

Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have discovered a specialized population of neutrophils in the skin that produce extracellular matrix components, helping ...

A neutrophil with its typical, segmented nucleus. A protrusion of the nucleus acts like a "double-edged sword", which the neutrophil wields to kill pathogens - but which also sometimes damages tissues ...

Neutrophils play a crucial role by engulfing pathogens and releasing enzymes that kill invaders to fight infections. When they are activated by infection, neutrophils can release neutrophil ...

RNA is thought to be a stay-at-home kind of molecule, often comfortably confined within the cell’s interior. So, when RNA molecules were detected on the surface of several cell types, researchers ...

Two concepts are important to understanding how leukocytes become immunocompetent cells: proliferation and differentiation (Figure 6). Proliferation is the production of many cells from a single cell ...