@article{30491, keywords = {Macrophages, Nerve cells, Demyelination, Phenolic glycolipids, leprosy}, author = {Dunlap MD and Khader S}, title = {Dancing with the Stars: Phenolic Glycolipids Partners with Macrophages.}, abstract = {

How Mycobacterium leprae infection causes demyelination to mediate leprosy pathogenesis has been a long-standing question. In a recent Cell paper, Madigan et al. (2017) use a zebrafish model of M. leprae infection to show that infected macrophages patrol axons to trigger mitochondrial damage and induce demyelination of nerve cells.

}, year = {2017}, journal = {Cell host & microbe}, volume = {22}, pages = {249-251}, issn = {1934-6069}, doi = {10.1016/j.chom.2017.08.016}, language = {eng}, }