Traumatic brain injury can lead to profound downstream barriers to obtaining adequate nutrition from the diet.

Infectious or chronic diseases such as long COVID, Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury can cause inflammation in ...

Immune cells called regulatory T cells have long been known for their role in countering inflammation. In the setting of ...

New research uncovers the dual nature of scratching an itch; although it can worsen skin inflammation, it can also boost ...

With every bite of food we take, our intestinal immune system must make a big decision. Tasked with defending us from foreign ...

Their study showed that the brain maintains a balance between molecular immune system signals that induce inflammation and ... liver, intestines, and so on. The vagus nerve plays a role in ...

People with the skin condition psoriasis often have invisible inflammation in the ... had higher numbers of certain types of immune cells in their small intestine, and the cells showed signs ...

Scientists have used advanced X-ray phase-contrast tomography (XPCT) to uncover how gut health may influence Alzheimer’s disease.

reveal that intestinal TM6SF2 critically affects the gut–liver axis. Besides its beneficial effects against infection, trained immunity has recently been implicated in inflammation-related ...

UC is a chronic condition featuring persistent inflammation ... The gut-brain axis is not the same as the gum-gut axis. The gut-brain axis refers to the neurological, hormonal, and immune ...

During fasting, neurons in the gut connected to the brain release chemical signals that bind to immune cells, telling them to leave the intestine ... chronic inflammation, high stress, or obesity.