Most of the time, the intestinal immune system can recognize friend from foe, tolerating myriad foods while destroying ...

A discovery published in Nature Immunology has shed light on why the immune system is less aggressive toward self-antigens, ...

Skin microbes do more than coexist—they shape immune responses, repair tissue, and influence gene expression across your ...

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Not just IgG4 antibodies that become predominant in the many-jabbed, but also lesser studied IgG2, researchers find. NIH ...

Researchers found that a small population of immune cells in the mouse intestine prevents allergic responses to food, suggesting that targeting such cells therapeutically could potentially lead to a ...

For many families today, navigating food allergies is a normal part of daily life. From peanut-free classrooms to gluten-free ...

Study in mice identifies essential immune cells in the intestine that help to prevent unwarranted reactions to harmless food allergens.

This population of immune cells is directly responsible for the liver's usual function of suppressing inflammatory responses to nurture immune tolerance, including ignoring metastatic cancer cells.

Historically, treatments for autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, myasthenia gravis, and primary biliary cholangitis have relied upon immune suppression. That approach can be effective ...