A gentle approach offers new hope for inflammatory lung diseases (IMAGE)

Scripps Research Institute

A gentle approach offers new hope for inflammatory lung diseases

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A collection of immune cells known as a granuloma that results from chronic inflammation in the interstitial lung disease sarcoidosis. White dots indicate the receptor NRP2, which is overexpressed in response to inflammation.

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