Sentences with phrase «by phagocytes»

Once engulfed by the phagocyte, the virus quickly turns the cell's own biology on its head, forcing it to produce copies of the virus.

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The Omega 3 fatty acids found in oily fish — such as salmon, trout, halibut, and tuna — help boost our immune systems, by increasing the activity of phagocytes, which are white blood cells that combat harmful bacteria.

Our innate immune system, made up mainly of phagocytes, protects our body by exterminating bacteria.

This is opportunistic fungus called candida albicans (red) engulfed by CX3CR1 + phagocytes (green) in the gut villi (blue).

Retinal cell death can be induced by phagocytic immune cells that infiltrate the tissue in response to injury or infection, but the molecular signals that trigger phagocyte invasion are largely unknown.

A team of researchers led by Hongkang Xi and Menno van Lookeren Campagne, of the Department of Immunology at Genentech, Inc., in South San Francisco, Calif., discovered that a pro-inflammatory signaling protein, or cytokine, called IL - 33, plays a key role in recruiting phagocytes to damaged retina and inducing retinal degeneration.

This is a dynamic process in which the bacteria are recognised by, and adhere to, the phagocytes in a process that can be dramatically seen in real time using time - lapse confocal microscopy.

We describe Eros (essential for reactive oxygen species), a protein encoded by the previously undefined mouse gene bc017643 , and show that it is essential for host defense via the phagocyte NAPDH oxidase.

It mediates the immune response by enhancing the production of virus - fighting interferon and promoting the function of phagocytes, which engulf and destroy foreign pathogens.