More information: Emily M. King et al, Gpnmb and Spp1 mark a conserved macrophage injury response masking fibrosis-specific programming in the lung, JCI Insight (2024). DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.182700 ...

They showed that lung vascular disease is preceded by inflammation. Later, they found that specific subtypes of macrophages (a class of white blood cells), recruited to the lung during hypoxia ...

Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have uncovered a key reason why some people continue to ...

Scientists have learned more about how SARS-CoV-2 infections, which cause COVID-19, can ruin the ability of immune cells to ...

Research identifies how viral respiratory infection damages macrophages and suggests treatment with a pre-existing FDA approved drug.

“We were expecting to see maybe neutrophils or T cells, but the amount of macrophages we saw in the samples was huge,” Marichal said. “They are not normally present in a healthy lung [in large numbers ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have discovered how severe COVID-19 can destroy immune cells' ability to repair the lungs, helping explain the lingering effects of long COVID.

Savara Inc. (Nasdaq: SVRA) (the Company), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on rare respiratory diseases, ...

Although macrophages, a type of immune cell ... damaged tissue outnumber their inflammatory counterparts, reducing lung inflammation and allowing the organ to heal more effectively.

SINGAPORE: A new study from Duke-NUS Medical School has identified a promising new avenue for tackling pulmonary fibrosis, a ...