Inflammation involves the influx into organs of immune cells (white blood cells) from the blood. These cells deal with microbes and repair tissue damage. Two main sub-types of immune cells are T cells ...

The breakdown of collagen is handled by macrophages, a type of white blood cell that is part of the immune system.

“What we really want to challenge ourselves with in autoimmunity is to try to take a pro-inflammatory macrophage and turn that into something that would be either tissue regenerating or immune ...