Sentences with phrase «cells called macrophages»

The immune system, by sending in special cells called macrophages and neutrophils, plays a big role in cleaning up this damage (17).

What's more, it broke up existing plaques by boosting immune cells called macrophages to clear out the plaque.

This triggers an inflammatory response in which white blood cells called macrophages rush to eat up the LDL.

These complexes are normally removed by special cells called macrophages.

Under the guidance of a world - renowned cancer biologist, Robert Weinberg, Ph.D., Lu is focusing on how metastatic breast cancer cells interact with a subset of immune cells called macrophages, which normally are capable of engulfing — literally eating — infected, damaged, or cancerous cells.

Laszlo Nagy, M.D., Ph.D., director of SBP's Genomic Control of Metabolism Program, will present new research that suggests that the inflammatory process — and specifically a type of white blood cells called macrophages — are involved.

Immune cells called macrophages are some of the first to arrive.

Researchers focused on white blood cells called macrophages that work to destroy invading bacterial microbes.

What he found was that this switch, called an ion channel, controls the flow of calcium into immune cells called macrophages.

An international team of researchers reveals how immune cells called macrophages activate to kill parasitic worms.

In models lacking NLRX1, innate immune cells called macrophages produce higher levels of IL - 6, a signaling molecule that has a central role in colorectal cancer development.

But it's easy to harvest large numbers of their close cousins, immune cells called macrophages.

White blood cells called macrophages destroy germs as soon as they detect them.

In previous research, a team led by the same Artyomov showed that inflammatory immune cells called macrophages produce significant amounts of itaconate when they detect bacteria.

It's long been thought that white blood cells called macrophages destroy viruses at the site of an infection, like a mosquito bite.

The bacteria hide within human cells called macrophages, escaping the body's own immune defenses and being shielded from many types of antibiotics.

«We take blood cells called macrophages and put them with bacterial toxins,» explained Professor Grenier.

There's evidence that immune cells called macrophages in belly fat become inflamed as we get older.

In emphysema, a class of immune cells called macrophages flock to the lungs.

«The protein Smurf1 functions in specialized white blood cells called macrophages in both mice and humans, thereby suggesting a conserved evolutionary pathway,» said Dr. Shiloh, co-senior author of the study along with Dr. Beth Levine, Director of the University's Center for Autophagy Research.

Immune cells called macrophages, the janitors of the body, invade the site to clean up.

One reason the bacterium has survived for so long is that it has developed a sophisticated mechanism for hiding in the body: it resides in white blood cells called macrophages, the very cells that would normally kill it.

Through studies conducted in mice, Oliver M. Steinmetz, MD (University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, in Germany) and his colleagues have shown that the messenger protein IL - 6, which is rapidly produced at high levels during an acute inflammatory form of kidney disease, potently dampens activation of tissue - destructive immune cells called macrophages.

On top of the T cell abnormalities, chronic GVHD involves antibody - producing B cells and scavenger cells called macrophages.

The resulting disease - causing (virulent) parasite forms, called amastigotes, infect and multiply in immune cells called macrophages at the bite site and after dissemination of the infection to secondary sites.

The drug caused immune cells called macrophages to eject their cholesterol, an important effect because cholesterol - laden macrophages help trigger artery - blocking plaques.

The Leuven - based VIB researchers have revealed a mechanism that explains why the anti-tumor activity of specific immune cells called macrophages is suppressed during tumor growth.

Crowding large, craggy cells called macrophages were masses of tiny eyes.

In this study, the researchers found that a specific population of immune cells called macrophages have the ability to secrete or produce a protective or healing factor known as Interleukin - 10 (IL - 10), which can interact with receptors on intestinal epithelial cells to promote wound healing.

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

Ferumoxytol leaks out of blood vessels in areas of inflammation and is taken up by immune cells called macrophages, which congregate at sites of inflammation.

Previous studies have pointed to immune cells called macrophages as the primary immune cell responsible for engulfing and breaking down nerve debris.

Jerrold Olefsky and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, killed the bone marrow cells in mice that make immune cells called macrophages.

Six months ago, Michal Schwartz and her team at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, showed that another type of white blood cell called a macrophage can help damaged spinal nerves grow back.

In his research on the axolotl, which is a Mexican salamander, Dr. Godwin discovered that when it comes to regenerating tissue without scarring, a white blood cell called the macrophage may be a triggering factor.

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The tattooing process works by injecting ink into the skin, which stimulates an immune response in which cells called «macrophages» move into the area and «eat up» the ink.

They found that STAT6 - IP prevented RSV - induced changes to airway cells called alveolar macrophages, which can promote asthma - like responses both during and following viral infections.

Macrophages squeeze in between heart muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes.

Asthma has been correlated with an overabundance of one type of immune cell called M2 macrophages in the lungs.

But cellular immunity involves other players — such as macrophages, the network of chemical messengers called cytokines, and so - called natural killer cells — that have received scant attention.

However, ChABC gene therapy decreased the presence of these cells and increased the presence of other immune cells called M2 macrophages that help to reduce inflammation and enhance tissue repair.

Their interaction prevented first - responder immune cells, called macrophages, from triggering reactions that kill cancer cells.

In the first, principal investigator Glass and colleagues investigated a pair of related transcriptional repressors called Rev - Erb - alpha and Rev - Erb - beta (proteins with important roles in regulating the circadian rhythm in many cell types) in mouse macrophages.

Their idea emerged from test - tube experiments that Munn did years ago, when he showed that some macrophages could stop T cells in their tracks by starving them of a building block called tryptophan.

The Discher Lab has since shown that a protein on human cells called CD47 functions as a «marker of self» by interacting with a protein on the surface of macrophages called SIRPA.

As wounds heal, white blood cells, such as those called macrophages, are attracted to the wound site and release substances called cytokines that cause an inflammatory response.

Separately, the high levels of a type of T cell called Th17 cells secrete gobs of interleukin - 17 (IL - 17), expanding macrophage populations.

If they're too big, cells in the blood called macrophages gobble them up.

In a recent study, senior author and Yale pathology professor Wang Min demonstrated that the tumors release substances called cytokines to attract macrophages, which then secrete growth factors that promote tumor cell growth and proliferation.

The genomes of the aged macrophages expressed more genes that hinder a group of molecules that spread signals between nerve cells, called catecholamines.