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Title: nUCLEAR FUSION

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Vocals: aki

Album: bifuraction

Circle: ZYTOKINE

Original: Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom ~ Nuclear Fusion

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I ♥️ both the live-action Cells at Work movie and the anime series on Netflix.

It's fun watching the inner workings of the human body. And after watching Cells at Work, it would make you want to take care of yourself.

Amazing edutainment ride with Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells and T-cells as they work tirelessly in protecting us from infections and diseases.

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#Health #Science #Immunology #redbloodcells #WhiteBloodCells #Tcells #KnowYourCells #Hematology #MedicalEducation #BloodHealth #HealthyLiving #HealthAwareness #cytokine #inflammation #immunity

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Mending Muscles

Your blood contains cell fragments – platelets – that can supercharge muscle repair. It's why platelet-rich plasma injections are used to treat muscle injuries. Researchers investigate why this works using fluorescence microscopy of uninjured and injured mouse muscles (pictured). Platelets accumulated after injury and antibody treatment to deplete injured muscles of platelets prevented immune cells called neutrophils from accumulating in these muscles. This also impaired repair. As platelets release chemical messengers called cytokines, researchers measured cytokine levels after injury in normal and platelet-depleted muscles. Platelet depletion reduced levels of the neutrophil-attracting cytokines CXCL5 and CXCL7. Comparing muscles from normal mice (before injury, left; 2 weeks later, middle) and those lacking CXCL7 (2 weeks after injury, right), revealed mice lacking CXCL7 recruited fewer neutrophils upon injury and 2 weeks later had smaller muscle fibres (zoom, bottom right). Platelet-derived CXCL7 therefore promotes muscle repair via neutrophils – this pathway could be exploited to boost repair.

Written by Lux Fatimathas

Image adapted from work by Flavia A. Graca and colleagues

Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Nature Communications, March 2023

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