How a special kind of jelly helps calm body inflammation
Bioactive hyaluronic acid fragments inhibit lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammatory responses via the Toll-like receptor 4 signaling pathway
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Scientists made tiny pieces of a natural body jelly (hyaluronic acid) and gave them to immune cells and mice that were tricked into thinking they were sick. The tiny pieces told the immune system to calm down.
No biological mechanisms were identified in this study. This may be an epidemiological, observational, or survey-based study that reports associations rather than proposing causal biological pathways.
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Scientists made tiny pieces of a natural body jelly (hyaluronic acid) and gave them to immune cells and mice that were tricked into thinking they were sick. The tiny pieces told the immune system to calm down.
No biological mechanisms were identified in this study. This may be an epidemiological, observational, or survey-based study that reports associations rather than proposing causal biological pathways.
Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses
Max 100Randomized Controlled Trials
Max 90Cohort Studies
Max 72Case-Control Studies
Max 58Cross-Sectional Studies
Max 44Case Reports & Case Series
Max 30Expert Opinion & Narrative Reviews
Max 532 / 90
Evidence Score
Participants are randomly assigned to treatment or control groups, minimizing bias. Considered the gold standard for testing whether an intervention causes an effect.
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You N, Chu S, Cai B, Gao Y, Hui M, Zhu J, Wang M
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Small pieces of a substance found in your body called hyaluronic acid may help calm down overactive immune cells that cause inflammation, especially when those cells are triggered by bacteria.
Small pieces of a natural substance called hyaluronic acid can calm down the body’s alarm system in immune cells when they’re triggered by bacteria, reducing inflammation.
Scientists found that a special form of a substance naturally found in our bodies, called hyaluronic acid, can calm down the body’s overactive immune response in sick mice, making them less inflamed.
Scientists turn a big, natural substance in your body called hyaluronic acid into smaller pieces using a special enzyme, and these smaller pieces seem to reduce inflammation better than the big or small versions you normally have.