Sentences with phrase «called phagocytosis»

Microglia surround TDP -43-filled neurons and turned on genes to make proteins that help them attach to the sick cells and induce a process called phagocytosis that envelops the mutant proteins for disposal.

Here is the mystery: the body's immune cells usually remove dead and dying cells through a process called phagocytosis, yet the amount of material that is consumed is so great that you'd expect significant inflammation, pain and tissue damage — something that doesn't typically happen when breastfeeding ceases.

Within 10 minutes of the bacteria reaching the lungs, the neutrophils started to crawl toward the bacteria and gobble them up, a process called phagocytosis.

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Phagocytosis is a process by which white blood cells called macrophages digest cellular debris and foreign bodies and particles.

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.

«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.