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.
Not exact matches
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.