Sentences with phrase «digest cellular debris»

Macrophages are a type of white blood cell whose normal role is to digest cellular debris and foreign substances.

They hold neurons in place, nourish them, digest cellular debris, and are suspected to be the origin of glioblastoma.

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

«In the best - case scenario, we thought we could hopefully prevent the loss of vision in these patients,» he says, because RPE cells are known to help maintain existing photoreceptors, in part by digesting the cellular debris that they shed.

Macrophages are the long - lived garbage disposals of the immune system, indiscriminately engulfing and digesting cellular debris and pathogens.

Not exact matches

That can also help digest the cellular walls of unwanted wastes like toxins, undigested proteins, and other cellular debris.