Friday, April 03, 2009

Referral: Effect Measure On the `Cytokine Storm’

 

 

# 2968

 

 

 

The Revere’s over at Effect Measure have a long but fascinating post on a recent paper published in  PNAS with the alluring title: TNF/iNOS-producing dendritic cells are the necessary evil of lethal influenza virus infection.

 

As you might expect from the title, this is a complex, and highly technical paper – so I’m sure we all appreciate that the Reveres have synthesized it down to something a bit more digestible for the layperson.

 

To read it, go to:

 

More on the science of the influenza "cytokine storm"