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25 October 2026
Inflammatory Nerves
Painful and tissue-damaging, eosinophilic oesophagitis, is a chronic food allergy response. White blood cells called eosinophils flood to the oesophagus (food pipe) where they release inflammatory molecules. This study reveals the neuro-immune (the interaction between the nervous and immune systems) networks that underlie this disorder's debilitating effects including the pain.
Read the published research article here
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- Still from a video from work by Kendall M. Kellerman and colleagues
- Division of Allergy and Immunology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Nature Communications, October 2026
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