Press Release No. 14
Berlin
Immune cells Ameliorate Hypertension-Induced Cardiac Damage in Mice
Researchers in Berlin, Germany have found that a specific type of immune cell, the regulatory T lymphocyte (Treg) plays an important role in hypertension-induced cardiac damage. The injected Treg that they harvested from donor mice into recipient mice were infused with angiotensin II, a blood pressure-raising peptide.