Preventing Movement of Specific Immune Cells Improves Heart Disease Symptoms

Scientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center report that the location of immune cells in the body determines whether they help or harm the development of heart disease. They say their study (“ Distinct Roles of Resident and Nonresident Macrophages in Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy ”), which appears i n Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(PNAS ), supports the idea that the immune system directly impacts