The study of immune inflammatory responses centers on the intricate molecular pathways that both initiate and modulate these processes. Inflammation is ...

Future Microbiol. 2009;4(9):1151-1165. Renal production of active vitamin D is important for bone health by maintaining proper serum calcium and phosphorus levels. Extrarenal production of active ...

Scientists reveal how Candida auris survives on human skin by feeding on CO₂ and how blocking it could stop its spread.

Researchers in Bangladesh have identified a bat-borne virus, Pteropine orthoreovirus, in patients who were initially suspected of having Nipah virus but tested negative. All had recently consumed raw ...

Ageing changes the immune system in ways that are not always obvious from the outside. One of the most damaging shifts is a tendency towards persistent, misdirected inflammation – the kind of ...

The VDR is a member of the steroid/hormone nuclear receptor superfamily that includes 48 ligand-activated transcription factors. [3] These factors bind to conserved elements in the promoters of genes ...