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NIH Investigators Find Link Between DNA Damage and Immune Response – 2
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters. I’m Joe Balintfy. The innate immune system deals with a set of standard kinds of threats to the body.
Resnick: It can be bacteria, it could be viruses, it could be different kinds of fungi and so on.
Narrator: Dr. Michael Resnick is a principal investigator at the National Institutes of Health.
Resnick: Now when they come into the body they represent a threat.
Narrator: The threat is met by a family of genes known as Toll-like receptors. Toll-like receptors are proteins that play a role by defending the body from threats. New research is showing DNA damage changes how Toll-like receptors work. For details on this research, visit www.niehs.nih.gov. Health Matters is produced by the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.Contact Us
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