Researchers at the University of Münster and Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have demonstrated for the first time in real time that the body’s own defence cells use catecholamines – neurotransmitters such as dopamine and adrenaline – to communicate via the same chemical signals as nerve cells.
This discovery opens up a new understanding of how the immune system is regulated. The study has been published in the latest issue of the journal “Advanced Science”.