Sentences with phrase «as phagocytosis»

In addition, they put other parts of the immune system on alert and function as a clean - up crew, recognizing invading pathogens and gobbling them up, a process known as phagocytosis.

Since a protein called Rac1 is essential for normal milk production, as well as phagocytosis in immune cells, Nasreen Akhtar at the University of Sheffield and her colleagues wondered whether it might also be involved in this breast remodelling.

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Injection of wild - type stage 15 embryos with E. coli constitutively expressing Mcf1 from the high - copy vector pUC18 causes rapid paralysis of embryonic hemocytes and inhibition of phagocytosis as observed following wild - type Photorhabdus infection (Figure 3A and Video S3).

This may be of particular importance in the ageing lung as pulmonary infections are the primary cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly, as discussed by Boe et al. 11 Innate cells appear to have reduced TLR signalling via MAPK and NFƙB resulting in reduced inflammatory cytokine production as well as altered chemotaxis responses, decreased phagocytosis and antigen presentation capacity.

«The novelty of our study is that the final state of this C3 coating, called C3dg, which has sometimes been described as a «safe harbor» against phagocytosis, can still mediate recycling of C3dg - laden cells,» Ricklin says.

The main mechanism includes phagocytosis of macrophages which play a critical role in nonspecific defense (innate immunity) and, moreover; they have a role as antigen presenters which also help initiate specific defense mechanisms (adaptive immunity) by recruiting other immune cells such as lymphocytes.