A preclinical study has analyzed the interactions of the lipid mediator sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) in the spleen and heart during the transition from acute to chronic heart failure. Using a mouse ...

In people with stomach cancer, there may be little to no difference in survival and the chance of the cancer coming back whether the spleen is removed or kept during surgery to remove the stomach. We ...

Summer’s here--and so are 101 reminders that the season is filled with peril. In the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter, one reads of the stings of jellyfish and Portuguese men-of-war and the itchy eruptions ...

Priming involves dendritic cells — sentinels of the immune system. In an influenza infection in the lungs, for example, lung-migratory dendritic cells capture a piece of the viral antigen, and then ...

Repurposing the spleens of mice helps them to survive liver damage. If the approach works in people, it could offer an alternative to liver transplants. At the moment, people who need new livers often ...

CD8+ T cells - known as "killer" T cells - are the assassins of the immune system. Once they are primed, they seek out and destroy other cells that are infected with virus or cells that are cancerous.

You share an elevator with an individual who is coughing and sneezing, only to find yourself feeling unwell a few days later. The influenza virus has entered the respiratory tract and set the wheels ...

Carrots have a neutral nature, a sweet flavor, and target the Spleen, Lung, Liver, and Stomach channels. Carrots have the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Learn more about enlarged spleen in cats. Picture credit: FatCamera / Getty Images) Enlarged spleen in cats happens when the ...

An Alabama widow is claiming her 70-year-old husband’s death was caused by a surgery during which the doctor allegedly removed the wrong organ, according to PEOPLE. The widow, Beverly Bryan, is ...

Last month, we reviewed basic information about the dog spleen function and touched on a few disease problems. That information was based on what some call Western medicine which focuses on anatomy, ...