{"id":226880,"date":"2025-12-11T02:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-red-blood-cell-protein-turns-dendritic-cells-tolerant"},"modified":"2025-12-11T02:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:07:02","slug":"a-red-blood-cell-protein-turns-dendritic-cells-tolerant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/a-red-blood-cell-protein-turns-dendritic-cells-tolerant","title":{"rendered":"A Red Blood Cell Protein Turns Dendritic Cells Tolerant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-red-blood-cell-protein-turns-dendritic-cells-tolerant.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The immune system uses regulatory T cells to dampen inflammatory responses. However, the mechanism that led to these tolerant cells was unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of researchers showed that the trigger lies in a protein used in red blood cell production.<\/p>\n<p>Read more.<\/p>\n<p>Erythropoietin, the protein that drives red blood cell formation, also induces tolerance in dendritic cells, leading to the development of regulatory T cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immune system uses regulatory T cells to dampen inflammatory responses. However, the mechanism that led to these tolerant cells was unclear. Now, a team of researchers showed that the trigger lies in a protein used in red blood cell production. Read more. Erythropoietin, the protein that drives red blood cell formation, also induces tolerance [\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-226880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226880","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=226880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}