Caspase-8 mediates inflammation and disease in rodent malaria

Inflammasome activation plays a role in malaria pathogenesis, but details aren’t well understood. Here, the authors show that caspase-8 is a central mediator of systemic inflammation in rodent malaria and that monocytes from malaria patients express active caspases-1, -4 and -8.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Larissa M. N. Pereira, Patrícia A. Assis, Natalia M. de Araújo, Danielle F. Durso, Caroline Junqueira, Marco Antônio Ataíde, Dhelio B. Pereira, Egil Lien, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, Dario S. Zamboni, Douglas T. Golenbock, Ricardo T. Gazzinelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18295-x