Bat Flight and Inflammation
This text describes the curious connection between bat flight, inflammation, and viruses. By adapting to flight damage, bats reduced their inflammation response at the cost of harboring many viruses.
Topics
- interferon
- interferons
- cytosolic DNA
- cGAS
- DNA sensing
- bat
- bats
- coronavirus
- zoonosis
- epidemics
- inflammation
- STING
- serine 358
- immune response
- chronic inflammation
- bat flight