{"id":212452,"date":"2025-04-26T05:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T10:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/rare-lung-immune-cells-act-as-peacekeepers-against-deadly-covid-19-inflammation"},"modified":"2025-04-26T05:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T10:11:37","slug":"rare-lung-immune-cells-act-as-peacekeepers-against-deadly-covid-19-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/rare-lung-immune-cells-act-as-peacekeepers-against-deadly-covid-19-inflammation","title":{"rendered":"Rare lung immune cells act as peacekeepers against deadly COVID-19 inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-lung-immune-cells-act-as-peacekeepers-against-deadly-covid-19-inflammation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A rare cell type in the lungs is essential to survival from the COVID-19 virus, a new study shows.<\/p>\n<p>Experiments in mice infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus revealed that the immune cell class in question, called nerve and airway-associated interstitial macrophages, or NAMs, may keep the human immune system\u2019s initial counterattack on the virus (<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/lung+inflammation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lung inflammation<\/a>) from spiraling out of control to endanger patients.<\/p>\n<p>Macrophages are known to be the first responders to infection, as large <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immune+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune cells<\/a> capable of devouring invading viruses and the cells they infect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare cell type in the lungs is essential to survival from the COVID-19 virus, a new study shows. Experiments in mice infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus revealed that the immune cell class in question, called nerve and airway-associated interstitial macrophages, or NAMs, may keep the human immune system\u2019s initial counterattack on the virus (lung [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212452","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}