Gunapati Bhargavi Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health burden, yet the mechanisms by which Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) adapts to host environments to drive disease pathology are incompletely defined. A key limitation has been reliance on axenic culture s…
L-arginine (ARG) availability is a critical determinant of macrophage antimicrobial capacity, as it fuels nitric oxide production and other immune effector pathways essential for restricting Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tube…
Conventionally, immunity in humans has been classified as innate and adaptive, with the concept that only the latter type has an immunological memory/recall response against specific antigens or pathogens. Recently, a new concept of trained immunity (a…
