Obesity Can Rewire the Immune System and the Response to Immunotherapy (IMAGE)

Gladstone Institutes

Obesity Can Rewire the Immune System and the Response to Immunotherapy

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A team of researchers at Gladstone Institutes, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and UC San Francisco discovered how obesity can change the immune system and, potentially, how clinicians might be able to better treat allergies and asthma in obese people.

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Photo: Michael Short/Gladstone Institutes

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