Sentences with phrase «phagocytes known»
In zero gravity, for instance, various immune system functions are impaired: Phagocytes known as macrophages, which kill and destroy invading bacteria, are no longer capable of protecting the person optimally from infections, which is why astronauts often suffer them.
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While the complement system slimes the area, an assemblage known in immunology textbooks as professional phagocytes — literally «expert eating cells» — goes to work.
When the team shut down the flies» phagocytes, they were no longer protected from the bacteria, implicating these cells in the flies» adaptivelike immune response.