Interferons are proteins that are part of your natural defenses. They tell your immune system that germs or cancer cells are in your body. And they trigger killer immune cells to fight those invaders.

Type I interferon has a pathogenic role in many rheumatic conditions, including systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren syndrome, myositis and systemic sclerosis. Many genetic risk factors for rheumatic ...

Effect of matrix metalloproteinase-2 on antitumor immunity. Does the addition of molecular targeted therapy to standard treatments lead to better or worse outcomes overall? A systematic review of EGFR ...

Sept. 29, 2005 -- Interferon -- a critical protein that mediates the body's defense against a wide variety of infectious agents and tumors -- may soon have greater therapeutic value as the result of a ...

In severe cases of COVID-19, a person’s immune system throws everything it has at the coronavirus, but some of the weapons it lobs end up hurting the patient instead of fighting the virus. Now ...