Key Protein Mediating Inflammatory Response Discovered

Inflammation has always been a double-edged sword, providing critical action that helps heal wounds or thwart infections, in addition to damaging healthy cells and tissues due to a disproportionate response. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms that control the balance between positive and negative inflammation could open new drug discovery avenues for a variety of diseases and disease complications, such as sepsis. Now, investigators from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have iden