A large portion of patients who survive sepsis, a life-threatening hyperinflammatory response to infection resulting in organ dysfunction, experience a higher risk of mortality than non-septic patients. Innate immune cells of sepsis survivors exhi...
The importance of the effector functions performed by glial cells, the resident cells of the CNS possessing immune functions, in abrogating potentially fatal neurotropic viral infections have only recently begun to gain appreciation. These effecto...
Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, comprise a family of disorders characterized by progressive loss of nervous system function. Neuroinflammation is increasingly recogni...