What is it about dying cells in the heart that stimulates the immune
system? To answer this, researchers looked deep inside thousands of
individual cardiac immune cells and mapped their individual
transcriptomes using a method called single cell RNA-Seq. This led to
the discovery that after a heart attack, DNA from dying cells
masquerades as a virus and activates an ancient antiviral program called
the type I interferon response in specialized immune cells. ¬¬ The
researchers named these "interferon inducible cells (IFNICs)."
When investigators blocked the interferon response, either
genetically or with a neutralizing antibody given after the heart
attack, there was less inflammation, less heart dysfunction, and
improved survival. Specifically, blocking antiviral responses in mice
improved survival from 60 percent to over 95 percent. These findings
reveal a new potential therapeutic opportunity to prevent heart attacks
from progressing to heart failure in patients.
Here's the paper:-
system? To answer this, researchers looked deep inside thousands of
individual cardiac immune cells and mapped their individual
transcriptomes using a method called single cell RNA-Seq. This led to
the discovery that after a heart attack, DNA from dying cells
masquerades as a virus and activates an ancient antiviral program called
the type I interferon response in specialized immune cells. ¬¬ The
researchers named these "interferon inducible cells (IFNICs)."
When investigators blocked the interferon response, either
genetically or with a neutralizing antibody given after the heart
attack, there was less inflammation, less heart dysfunction, and
improved survival. Specifically, blocking antiviral responses in mice
improved survival from 60 percent to over 95 percent. These findings
reveal a new potential therapeutic opportunity to prevent heart attacks
from progressing to heart failure in patients.
Here's the paper:-
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