Neutrophils move around the body through the blood stream to fight infections, but in order to do this they must travel through the blood vessel walls of sites of inflammation, infection, or injury.
The wave direction changes faster than
the neutrophil moves, perhaps guiding the cell itself.
Not exact matches
In the image on the left, many green - labeled
neutrophils carrying the C5a receptor have
moved out from the grey blood vessel into the joint of a mouse in which inflammatory arthritis has been induced.
But, because LAD patients»
neutrophils can not
move into the tissue, this pathway goes awry, leading to inflammation.
One of the proteins needed for
neutrophil crawling, CD11b, allows the immune cells to
move along as though on a tank tread, says Yipp.