Sentences with phrase «called phagocyte»

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In response to fatty deposits on the walls of the arteries, a type of phagocyte called a macrophage identifies the growing lesions as trouble spots and infiltrates them, swelling and destabilizing the deposits.

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

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.