Mice deficient for the cytokine interleukin-15 are unexpectedly protected from sepsis. Orinska and colleagues show that interleukin-15 signals intracellularly in mast cells and limits their recruitment of neutrophils to clear the infection (pages 927–934).
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Ward, P. The curiosity of IL-15. Nat Med 13, 903–904 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0807-903
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