Researchers report that high levels of salt in mice's skin help them fight off bacteria — and that humans may also stockpile salt at infection sites. (sciencemag.org)
So you can clearly see that regular, moderate exercise boosts the ability of the neutrophils to get to infection sites quickly (chemotaxis) and attack the bad guys (phagocytosis). (sweatscience.com)
While doing her Ph.D., Wang came across a defense mechanism in plants involving apoptosis, where «the plant cell is induced to die around the infection site so the pathogen can not be spread to other tissues,» Wang says. (sciencemag.org)