Emek Medical Center

Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans

<title>Abstract</title> Attention is a central mechanism for prioritizing and shaping sensory information. For example, directing attention away from injury reduces perceived pain. Whether such cognitive modulation extends to downstream biological processes has remained unknown....

Failed metabolic adaptation to stress contributes to epidermal cell adhesion defects in Darier disease

Congenital pathogenic gene variants may not elicit symptoms until later in life, highlighting the importance of identifying extra-genetic factors influencing the onset and severity of heritable diseases. We explored this in Darier disease (DD or ATP2A2 -nEDD), an autosomal domina...