Mastodawn

Technische Universität München Jul 11, 2024

New research reveals that cells in blood vessels in the #liver start a "sleep timer" that switches off #ImmuneCells in #ChronicHepatitisB. Targeting this mechanism could be a starting point for new #immunotherapies: http://go.tum.de/857974

📷A. Heddergott

"Sleep timer" for immune cells discovered

In chronic hepatitis B, a "sleep timer" is triggered in immune cells, which switches them off. This prevents them from destroying infected liver cells.