Sentences with phrase «in phagocytosis»

These effects appear to be linked to progranulin's involvement in phagocytosis, a type of cellular house - keeping whereby cells «eat» other dead cells, debris, and large molecules.

The small GTPase Rac is a key factor known to be involved in phagocytosis and cell migration in mammals and has been shown to be essential for hemocyte migration within the embryo [29], [30].

Even more notable, Loki has genes that code for proteins involved in phagocytosis, the process by which one cell can swallow another — and widely believed to be the way eukaryotes acquired mitochondria, a cell's power source.

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Mutations in two nonessential genes specifically block the phagocytosis of cells programmed to die during development.

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.

Besides triggering phagocytosis, Rac1 also seems to keep dying cells tethered to the alveoli for longer, possibly encouraging their neighbours to engulf them rather than leaving it to immune cells in the breast ducts.

Blocking the mechanisms involved in other methods of cell death including apoptosis and phagocytosis did not disrupt the process, confirming that entosis operates in a different way.

This may be of particular importance in the ageing lung as pulmonary infections are the primary cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly, as discussed by Boe et al. 11 Innate cells appear to have reduced TLR signalling via MAPK and NFƙB resulting in reduced inflammatory cytokine production as well as altered chemotaxis responses, decreased phagocytosis and antigen presentation capacity.

They found that the interaction of the C3dg fragments on affected erythrocytes and the binding domain for CR3 on immune cells can lead to phagocytosis and the rupturing of red blood cells in PNH patients.

Detection of gene repertoires related to ecological functions (phagocytosis, organic matter degradation, membrane transporters, meiosis) in different lineages of heterotrophic microeukaryotes.

MicroRNA - 34a - mediated down - regulation of the microglial - enriched triggering receptor and phagocytosis - sensor TREM2 in age - related macular degeneration.

Impaired phagocytosis of apoptotic cells by macrophages in chronic granulomatous disease is reversed by IFN - γ in a nitric oxide - dependent manner.

The main mechanism includes phagocytosis of macrophages which play a critical role in nonspecific defense (innate immunity) and, moreover; they have a role as antigen presenters which also help initiate specific defense mechanisms (adaptive immunity) by recruiting other immune cells such as lymphocytes.

Toll - like receptor signalling in macrophages links the autophagy pathway to phagocytosis.

In addition, they put other parts of the immune system on alert and function as a clean - up crew, recognizing invading pathogens and gobbling them up, a process known as phagocytosis.

(A) Confocal images showing phagocytosis of isolated FITC - labelled porcine photoreceptor outer segments (POS — green) by iPS - RPE in culture.

Phagocytosis of fluorescently labelled photoreceptor outer segments (green) by iPS - RPE cells in vitro.

Immunocyctochemistry was also used to assess phagocytosis of host outer segments in vivo.

The extracts also induce phagocytosis, which is the process in which certain cells engulf bacteria, dead cell tissues or other solid particles.

The allicin in garlic activates white blood cells and triggers phagocytosis, making garlic an incredibly powerful immune booster.

Garlic is thought to increase immune cells and strengthen them by inducing phagocytosis and promoting the activity of macrophages, which encourages white blood cells to fight infection and foreign organisms in the body.