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A population of meningeal γδ T cells regulates anxiety-like behaviour and threat avoidance in mice through IL-17a production, which signals to neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex.
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of herd immunity has become a topic of much debate. This Comment examines the factors that determine it, discusses how far we have come and considers what it will take to reach herd immunity safely.
Two papers report the development of novel systemic agonists of stimulator of interferon genes (STING) and show that these boost antitumour immunity in mouse models of cancer
To protect from infection and preserve maternal–fetal tolerance, decidual natural killer cells deliver cytotoxic effectors through nanotubes to selectively kill intracellular bacteria and not the host cell.
Here, Cox and Brokstad briefly discuss T cell- and B cell-mediated immunity to SARS-CoV-2, stressing that a lack of serum antibodies does not necessarily equate with a lack of immunity to the virus.
To keep tissue pathology at bay following nematode infection, basophils ensure that group 2 innate lymphoid cells can respond to neuron-derived signals to temper their activity.
In this Comment, Jeong Seok Lee and Eui-Cheol Shin discuss contradictory results regarding the downregulation or upregulation of type I interferon responses in patients with COVID-19 and the implications for therapies that target this pathway.