Autoimmunity: is the system of immune responses of an organism against its own healthy cells and tissues. Any disease that results from such an aberrant immune response is termed an "autoimmune disease".
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Date: April 15, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) In widefield fluorescence microscopy both the contrast and resolution of a captured image is corrupted by light collected from adjacent...
Date: November 17, 2020 Time: 8:00am COVID-19 is a complex pathological condition caused by infection with SARS-CoV. Different features have been observed in patients with a severe dis...
Date: October 29, 2020 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT), Chronic inflammation can occur as a result of a combination of genetic predispositions and environmental factors. Epigenetic modifica...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global health threat, affecting over 10% of the world population, including an estimated 37 million Americans. Importantly, glomerular diseases account for...
T cells are the adaptive immune system’s first responders to any virus, circulating in the blood to detect and quickly multiply to attack the virus, and also support the development of...
DATE: September 11, 2020 TIME: 08:00am PT, 11:00pm ET This is the third topic in the webinar series on ‘ Predictive Genomics for Population & Personalized Health ’. Pharmacog...
The microbiome has emerged as a major contributor to human health and disease. Numerous sources implicate shifts in the gut microbiome as potentially pathologic for a variety of autoimmune d...
As a response to various inflammatory stimuli, neutrophils and macrophages expel a mixture of their nuclear and granular elements in the form of extracellular traps (ETs). These web-like sub...
Background: Acute liver injury (ALI) is characterised by hepatocyte death and liver inflammation. Macrophages play a pivotal role in ALI by phagocytosing dead cells and producing pro-regener...