Too Much of a 'Good' Thing Can Kill You, Flu-Sensor Edition (3 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Too Much of a 'Good' Thing Can Kill You, Flu-Sensor Edition (3 of 6)

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Influenza virus induced lung epithelial cell death (artistic view). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 12, 2016, issue of Science Immunology, published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Kuriakose at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., and colleagues was titled, " ZBP1/DAI is an innate sensor of influenza virus triggering the NLRP3 inflammasome and programmed cell death pathways."

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Peter Vogel/ Brandon Stelter/Joshua Stokes

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