{"id":98740,"date":"2019-11-18T13:44:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T21:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/scientists-discover-bodys-protection-shield"},"modified":"2019-11-18T13:44:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T21:44:01","slug":"scientists-discover-bodys-protection-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/scientists-discover-bodys-protection-shield","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover body\u2019s protection shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-bodys-protection-shield.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a way to manipulate the body\u2019s own immune response to boost tissue repair. The findings, published in <i>Current Biology<\/i> today, reveal a new network of protective factors to shield cells against damage. This discovery, made by University of Bristol researchers, could significantly benefit patients undergoing surgery by speeding recovery times and lowering the risk of complication.<\/p>\n<p>When a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tissue\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tissue<\/a> is damaged, (either accidentally or through surgery), the body quickly recruits <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/immune+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune cells<\/a> to the injury site where they fight infection by engulfing and killing invading pathogens, through the release of toxic factors (such as unstable molecules containing oxygen known as \u201creactive oxygen species\u201d e.g. peroxides). However, these bactericidal products are also highly toxic to the host tissue and can disrupt the repair process. To counteract these <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/harmful+effects\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">harmful effects<\/a> the repairing tissue activates powerful protective machinery to \u201cshield\u201d itself from the damage.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers from Bristol\u2019s School of Biochemistry studying <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tissue+repair\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tissue repair<\/a>, have mapped the exact identities of these protective pathways and identified how to stimulate this process in na\u00efve tissues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a way to manipulate the body\u2019s own immune response to boost tissue repair. The findings, published in Current Biology today, reveal a new network of protective factors to shield cells against damage. This discovery, made by University of Bristol researchers, could significantly benefit patients undergoing surgery by speeding recovery times and lowering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98740","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}