Confronted with sepsis, key immune mechanism breaks, scientists find
Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 13:01
in Health & Medicine
When the body encounters an infection, a molecular signaling system ramps up the body's infection-fighting system to produce more white blood cells to attack invading bacteria. Now researchers have discovered that when facing a massive bacterial infection resulting in sepsis, that same signaling system malfunctions, damaging the body's ability to fight the invaders.