“Recent studies have shown that the reverse also happens: Sensory neurons communicate with immune cells to control immune response. “A lot of treatments try to curtail the cytokine storm by targeting the immune cells themselves,” he said. “From that, we merged these two profiles to look at how immune cells and nerve cells might interact, creating what we call an interactome. The results were very interesting.”“A lot of treatments try to curtail the cytokine storm by targeting the immune cells themselves. But we really still don’t know to what extent neurogenic inflammation might actually cause this disease,” Price said.