Trypanosomes can’t fool the adipose tissue

In a work published in PLOS Pathogens last month, Henrique Machado, from Luísa Figueiredo Laboratory, showed that the adipose tissue is able to mount a broad immune response to the parasites.

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Henrique Machado, Tiago Bizarra-Rebelo, Mariana Costa-Sequeira, Sandra Trindade, Tânia Carvalho, Filipa Rijo-Ferreira, Barbara Rentroia-Pacheco, Karine Serre, Luisa M. Figueiredo (2021). Trypanosoma brucei triggers a broad immune response in the adipose tissue. PLOS Pathogens.