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This is really cool. I worked with this axis of the immune system quite a bit, but I am more excited that it is in a spinal cord injury model.
There was once a prominent neurosurgeon (aka the world wide authority on spinal cord injuries), who lectured that if he could, he would make airbags that also inject you with corticosteroids (potent immunesuppressants), because the inflammatory response is so destructive, even minutes after injury. I’m glad they’re getting this down to a molecular level and maybe one day we won’t have to “carpet bomb” the immune system with steroids for every spinal cord injury.
I looked at the actual paper too. It looks solid. Thanks for the ping.