Sentences with phrase «cellular garbage disposal»

Mice chronically treated with CTEP had reductions in those garbage piles, and increased signs that a cellular garbage disposal system called autophagy was working.
He predicts that the discovery will help researchers develop very specific anti-inflammatory drugs that can subtly tweak the body's immune responses by targeting distinct ubiquitin ligases and similar enzymes involved in cellular garbage disposal.

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Bits of misfolded proteins processed by specialty organelles may accumulate in the main compartment of the cell, the cytosol, where they can be tagged for disposal by the cellular garbage service.
Macrophages are the long - lived garbage disposals of the immune system, indiscriminately engulfing and digesting cellular debris and pathogens.
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