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A NOVEL IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR PREVENTING POST-STROKE DEMENTIA
Recent work by the Buckwalter Lab at Stanford University indicates that eliminating B cells following stroke may protect patients from later developing vascular dementia.
ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES: YOUR BODY'S HOMELAND SECURITY
How do we survive infections when some types of bacteria can double their population as quickly as a run of a sitcom episode (twenty minutes) while our adaptive immune system takes a few days to produce antibodies and T cells in our defense? What defenses does our body use in the meantime to keep the infection under control?
THE ADAPTIVE IMMUNE SYSTEM: ATTACK OF THE CLONES
Your body is tasked with fighting off hordes of microbes each day. So how does it keep you healthy? Your adaptive immune system plays a key role. It has two key features that work to keep your body free of foreign invaders: specificity and memory.
GRAINS OF TRUTH: WHO ACTUALLY NEEDS TO GO GLUTEN FREE
Most of us can remember hearing about new diet fads like juicing, the raw foods diet, and the baby food diet. Yet another common diet trend is the gluten free diet. However, this trend is different: some people actually need a gluten free diet for their health. In this article, we explore the differences between Celiac disease, gluten sensitivity, and wheat allergy.