'Growing end' of inflammation discovered

[Joachim]

Redness, swelling and pain are signs of inflammation. It serves to protect the body from pathogens and foreign substances. Researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Cologne were able to show that inflammatory reactions of an important sensor protein proceed in a specific spatial direction. This finding has the potential to conceivably stop inflammation at the "growing end," and thus bring chronic inflammatory diseases to a halt. The study has now been published in the journal Science Advances.

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