Scientists for the first time found out that immune cages in intestines love sweet

The new research conducted by Mark Veldkhoyen, the head of group at Institute molecular medicine Lobo Zhuan Antunesha (iMM; Portugal) and the associate professor of medical faculty Lisbon (FMUL), and published in the scientific Magazine National academy sciences United States of America "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" (Magazine National academy sciences United States of America "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"), showed that the leukocytes living in intestines — the special group of immune cages called by tkanerezidentny lymphocytes — use sugar as a power source and have faster metabolism, than the lymphocytes circulating in blood. These results allow to assume that during infections...