{"id":229697,"date":"2026-01-24T00:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/how-does-hsv-2-shedding-affect-immunity-in-female-genital-tract-tissues"},"modified":"2026-01-24T00:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:11:21","slug":"how-does-hsv-2-shedding-affect-immunity-in-female-genital-tract-tissues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/how-does-hsv-2-shedding-affect-immunity-in-female-genital-tract-tissues","title":{"rendered":"How does HSV-2 shedding affect immunity in female genital tract tissues?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-does-hsv-2-shedding-affect-immunity-in-female-genital-tract-tissues2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here, Jennifer M. Lund &amp; team report immune cells mobilize and co-localize in the vaginal epithelium, expressing cytotoxic, inflammatory and immunoregulatory genes that may promote tissue homeostasis to limit damage:<\/p>\n<p>The image shows visualization of cells on a representative tissue section for spatial transcriptomics.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Address correspondence to: Jennifer M. Lund, 1,100 Fairview Ave. N., E5-110, Seattle, Washington 98,109, USA. Phone: 206.667.2217; Email: <a href=\"mailto:jlund@fredhutch.org.\">jlund@fredhutch.org.<\/a> Or to: Jairam R. Lingappa, 908 Jefferson St., Box 359,927, Seattle, Washington 98,104, USA. Phone: 206.520.3822; Email: <a href=\"mailto:lingappa@uw.edu.\">lingappa@uw.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, Jennifer M. Lund &amp; team report immune cells mobilize and co-localize in the vaginal epithelium, expressing cytotoxic, inflammatory and immunoregulatory genes that may promote tissue homeostasis to limit damage: The image shows visualization of cells on a representative tissue section for spatial transcriptomics. Address correspondence to: Jennifer M. Lund, 1,100 Fairview Ave. N., E5-110, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229697","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=229697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}