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Study finds how fever promotes increased activity, mitochondrial damage in
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre showed that fever temperatures increase immune cell metabolism, proliferation, and activity, but they also promote mitochondrial stress, DNA damage, and cell death in a specific subgroup of T cells.
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Study gives more insight into development of infection-fighting immune cel
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
With its complicated network of proteins, cells, and organs, the immune system guards the body against intruders like bacteria, viruses, or tumours. Cytotoxic T cells, specialised immune cells that destroy malignant or infected cells in our bodies, can transform into transient effector cells
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