Sentences with phrase «called leukocytes»

These peptides also have another critical ability that sets them apart from traditional antibiotics: They can recruit the host's immune system, summoning cells called leukocytes that secrete chemicals that help kill the invading microbes.

Leukocytes travel from blood vessels into tissues by means of a process called leukocyte trafficking.

These cells, along with dendritic cells, recognize the incoming undigested food particles, toxic agents, and bacterial components as foreign invaders, and present them to cells of the adaptive immune system called T and B lymphocytes, leading to clonal expansion (proliferation or multiplication of specific subsets of T and B cells) and recruitment of more pro-inflammatory immune cells to the gut through a process called leukocyte homing.

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Another device, called Scanadu Scanaflo, is a urine test kit that the company says can test for levels of glucose, protein, leukocytes, nitrates, blood, bilirubin, urobilinogen, specific gravity, and pH in urine.

Babies are fed large amounts of immune cells, such as leukocytes, and antibodies called secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) passed from the mother to help fight against many harmful agents.

This is a well - known phenomena called «digestive leukocytosis», in which there is a rise in the number of leukocytes — white blood cells — after eating.

In an article titled, «Allergen Induced Pulmonary Inflammation Enhances Mammary Tumor Growth and Metastasis: Role of CH13L1,» featured on the cover of the current issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, this new research suggests inflammation raises the level of a known biomarker of cancer, called «chitinase -3-like-1» or «CHI3L1,» in the inflamed tissue, which leads to increased metastasis and faster cancer growth in that tissue.

In a new report appearing in the November 2016 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, scientists show that nicotine activates certain white blood cells, called neutrophils, which in turn release molecules that lead to increased inflammation.

One factor: differences in surveillance proteins called human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) embedded in our cells.

The federally funded study, published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, showed how a stress receptor, known as corticotropin - releasing factor, or CRF1, can send signals to certain immune cells, called mast cells, and control how they defend the body.

The cells or blood is then tested for special proteins, called human leukocytes antigens (HLA).

When the leukocytes leak out into the surrounding tissue, the fluid build - up which follows is called edema and is visible as puffiness or swelling, and the increased metabolic activity associated with leukocyte activity also generates heat, contributing to local warmth.

Body scent is determined by a diverse set of genes called Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA), that form part of our immune system.

Our natural smell, is produced, in part, by genes called human leukocyte antigens (HLA).