IL-17: good fear no tears

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SCENITH: A Flow Cytometry-Based Method to Functionally Profile Energy Metabolism with Single-Cell Resolution.

Spot Variation Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy for Analysis of Molecular Diffusion at the Plasma Membrane of Living Cells.

Published in: Nature Immunology, 2020, 21 (11), pp.1315-1316. ⟨10.1038/s41590-020-0792-4⟩

Authors: Réjane Rua, Nathalie Pujol

Summary

Cytokines are well-known mediators of the immune response, but, recently, pleiotropic roles in the central nervous system have started to be uncovered. It is now shown that IL-17 directly modulates fear behavior in mice.

Link to Pubmed [PMID] – 32958929

Link to HAL – hal-03223266

Link to DOI – 10.1038/s41590-020-0792-4