Unraveling Chronic Inflammation: The Bacterial Biofilm Connection

So this interaction between the bacterial biofilm and the breast tissue can lead to an enhanced immune response, and it can lead to activation of T lymphocytes, differentiation of these T lymphocytes, and it can affect all the other things around the macrophages in our immune system. And ultimately, this upregulation of these immune system cells lead to what we see both in these fluorescent images, which upper regulation of TB, upregulation of CD36, and then as it, as it talks about in the discussion, this upregulation caused by the bacterial biofilm can lead to basically these symptoms which are very consistent with chronic inflammation. And in this case, it's being caused by staph epidermidis, Staphylococcus epidermis.