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CNS injury: IL-33 sounds the alarm
Simmie L Foster1, Sébastien Talbot1, Clifford J Woolf1
1FM Kirby Neurobiology Center, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Immunity
|March 19, 2015
Abstract:
Central nervous system trauma induces marked inflammation that has beneficial and deleterious consequences. In a recent issue of Neuron, Gadani et al. (2015) show that injured spinal cord releases the alarmin IL-33 to drive chemokines that recruit monocytes and promote recovery.
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