Professor Luke O'Neill
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1,535 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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That's the mystery.
Why would the immune response be kicked off in that situation and mimic as if there's been an injury and infection?
And that's the thing we don't know.
and begin to irritate further.
But it's very hard to find a bacteria in the skin of psoriatic people.
And so it's been caused by that.
If it was caused by a bacteria, of course, it would respond to antibiotics.
And it doesn't really, mostly speaking.
So it can't really be bacterial in origins.
It's a mystery as to what's causing this.
And lots of research is trying to pin that
down.
But we do know it's immune.
We know cells called T-cells go in.
That'll be very important later.
And these T-cells are involved in fighting infection and they go in in droves into the psoriatic skin and they release all these sort of chemicals that will cause the inflammation that's happening in the skin.
And inflammation, of course, is the hallmark of psoriasis redness.
swelling, a bit of pain, you know, they're the key features of inflammation anyway.
And the T-cell has a primary role here.
It's the key immune cell.
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