Dancing with the Stars: Phenolic Glycolipids Partners with Macrophages.
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How Mycobacterium leprae infection causes demyelination to mediate leprosy pathogenesis has been a long-standing question. In a recent Cell paper, Madigan et al. (2017) use a zebrafish model of M. leprae infection to show that infected macrophages patrol axons to trigger mitochondrial damage and induce demyelination of nerve cells.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Cell host & microbe
دوره 22 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017