Immunity · Feb 21, 2017

The Dark Age(ing) of the Inflammasome

By Aden K, Rosenstiel P

Mechanisms that contribute to healthy aging remain obscure. In a recent issue of Nature Medicine, Furman et al. (2017) describe that dietary caffeine inhibits the NLRC4 inflammasome, which is associated with disease-free aging.

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