Exhaustive exercise can cause a transient depression of immune function. Data indicate significant effects of immune activation cascades on the biochemistry of monoamines and amino acids such as trypt
Background: Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile vasculitis that predominantly affects children under five years of age. Although immune dysregulation is known to contribute to KD p
Scheme of mammalian tryptophan catabolism. Briefly, in mammalian cells, tryptophan is used mostly for protein synthesis. In a second quantitatively important pathway (driven by IDO in most cell types
