{"id":167352,"date":"2023-07-11T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T03:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/researchers-uncover-a-cellular-process-that-leads-to-inflammation"},"modified":"2023-07-11T22:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T03:22:53","slug":"researchers-uncover-a-cellular-process-that-leads-to-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/researchers-uncover-a-cellular-process-that-leads-to-inflammation","title":{"rendered":"Researchers uncover a cellular process that leads to inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-uncover-a-cellular-process-that-leads-to-inflammation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cedars-Sinai investigators have identified several steps in a cellular process responsible for triggering one of the body\u2019s important inflammatory responses. Their findings, published in the journal <i>Science Immunology<\/i>, open up possibilities for modulating the type of inflammation associated with several infections and inflammatory diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the investigators have improved understanding of the steps that lead to the production of IL-1 beta, a potent inflammatory protein signal released during many inflammatory responses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have a clearer understanding of the stepwise process that leads to the production of IL-1 beta,\u201d said Andrea Wolf, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, and a senior and corresponding author on the new study. \u201cBy understanding the process, we hope to one day find a treatment for diseases associated with this inflammatory response.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cedars-Sinai investigators have identified several steps in a cellular process responsible for triggering one of the body\u2019s important inflammatory responses. Their findings, published in the journal Science Immunology, open up possibilities for modulating the type of inflammation associated with several infections and inflammatory diseases. Specifically, the investigators have improved understanding of the steps that lead [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}