Inflammation Regulated by Body’s Internal Clock

The inflammatory response is an immensely complex mechanism that can be affected by a host of internal and external factors, but are the associated pathways regulated by the body’s circadian rhythm? New data from investigators at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and Trinity College Dublin would suggest yes. The findings from the new study—published recently in PNAS through an article titled “ Circadian clock protein BMAL1 regulates IL-1β in macrophages via N