Sentences with phrase «runaway immune responses in the body»
Chief among them was the finding that in all placental mammals FOXP3 acts through a snippet of DNA called the CNS1 enhancer to trigger the formation of a cohort of Tregs designated «peripheral» (whereas most Tregs are produced in the thymus gland, which sits between the lungs, a subset of the cells act as sentinels suppressing runaway immune responses in the body's peripheral tissues).
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In a nutshell, sepsis is a runaway immune response, wherein the body's act of saving itself can actually be lethal.