L - carnitine can increase the activity of phagocytic cells
such as macrophages as well as lymphocytes including killer cells.
Sun thinks these particular cytokines may activate killer T cells, which poison tumor cells, as
well as macrophages, which gobble them up.
Normally, immune cells in the lungs known
as macrophages destroy invaders, but large numbers of particles overwhelm them, says Seaton.
Kemp and Payne have already used the tool to visualize the signaling process that takes
place as macrophages discover bacteria and move to engulf and destroy the invaders.
However, such molecular treatments reproducibly cause rapid loss of many circulating blood cells,
as macrophages now attack some healthy cells as well.
The UVA researchers were able to «engraft,» or establish, immune cells known
as macrophages inside the brains of lab mice without the need for radiation.
The researchers took blood samples from Alzheimer's patients as well as healthy controls, then isolated important immune cells known
as macrophages from the blood.
The experiments, including studies conducted in a bioengineered 3 - D model of lung tissue seeded with relevant cells, showed that CHI3L1 regulates a pathway that recruits cells
such as macrophages and fibroblasts that produce the scarring, or fibrosis.
According to Harkema, the DHA could be changing the way these cells, also
known as macrophages, react to the silica in the lungs and somehow alter the immune system's response.
«We have shown that an endogenous peptide, catestatin, can directly suppress glucose production from hepatocytes and can indirectly suppress lipid accumulation in liver as
well as macrophage - mediated inflammation in obese mice,» said Sushil K. Mahata, PhD, professor of medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
The initial immune response involves cells of the body's innate immune system, such
as macrophages and neutrophils.
Tattoos may have staying power because of a hand off between generations of immune cells known
as macrophages, say a group of French researchers.
His new finding, involving important immune cells known
as macrophages (and microglia), could offer a way around that.
But cellular immunity involves other players — such
as macrophages, the network of chemical messengers called cytokines, and so - called natural killer cells — that have received scant attention.
Affecting the central nervous system, it causes neonatal meningitis by multiplying in immune cells, such
as macrophages, and then disseminating into the bloodstream to subsequently invade the blood - brain barrier.
Shutting down the pathway in inflammatory cells, such
as macrophages, deterred tumor development as well.
Immune cells known
as macrophages are unable to perform their normal function and are instead amplifying the disease.
Using mice deficient in Del - 1, they found that the protein promotes proliferation and differentiation of hematopoetic stem cells, sending more of these progenitor cells down a path toward becoming myeloid cells, such
as macrophages and neutrophils, rather than lymphocytes, such as T cells and B cells.
The innate system consists of nonspecific defenses such as antimicrobial peptides, inflammation - inducing molecules, and cells such
as macrophages and natural killer cells.
Instead, they attract white blood cells such
as macrophages, which engulf the virus whole — but the virus hijacks the blood cell's machinery and replicates.
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.
The immune cells known
as macrophages have a long to - do list in our bodies.
Some of these signals are in the form of lipids, which contribute to fine - tuning the immune responses of cells such
as macrophages and dendritic cells.
Scientists have long known that in diabetes, high levels of glucose and lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides) trigger white blood cell called monocytes to move into artery walls and evolve into other cells known
as macrophages.
It was also reported that PPARγ is expressed in cells of monocyte origin such
as macrophages and that it modulates the function of these cells.
The immune cells are a type of white blood cells known
as macrophages (MAK - roh - FAY - zhuz).
The researchers focussed on the ability of trehalose, a sugar consisting of two linked glucose molecules, to increase the amount of organelles inside specialized «housekeeping» cells known
as macrophages.
Both belong to a class of cells known
as macrophages.
In a truly translational collaboration with the Mall group (MMPU), we develop FRET reporters to sense enzyme activities detrimental to lung tissue, such
as macrophage and neutrophil elastases.
The researchers focused on two types of white blood cells, known
as macrophages and neutrophils.
In addition, other inflammatory immune cells, known
as macrophages, are also turned on within fat tissue.
Scientists aren't exactly sure, but in line with the study on NF - KappaB, they believe that glycine acts directly on inflammatory cells such
as macrophages to suppress activation of transcription factors and the formation of inflammatory cytokines in the first place.
Reishi has been shown to activate several types of human immune cells such
as macrophages and natural killer cells.
Lymphatic vessels are a network of capillaries, ducts and larger vessels that drain lymph (a fluid containing proteins, other chemicals and cells such
as macrophages and lymphocytes) from body tissues.