Using evasins as tools to regulate the activation and recruitment of leukocytes to injury sites KU Leuven
Uncontrolled inflammation is a major public health issue. It is difficult to treat clinically and is not restricted to the devastating pneumonia resulting from covid-19 infections. Thus, there is an urgent need for anti-inflammatory therapies that apply to covid-19 but also to the many inflammatory disorders affecting humans. During evolution, ticks had to circumvent an attack by the immune system of their mammalian host. As such, ticks ...