Sentences with phrase «infiltrated by macrophages»
Analysis of the tumour showed that it also been infiltrated by macrophages.
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NF - kB enables cancer cells to survive the pro-apoptotic influence of tumor necrosis factor that is released by tumor infiltrating macrophages;
An early - stage clinical study by another institution, published in the Lancet Oncology in May 2016, combined chemotherapy with an experimental drug that blocks CCR2, a receptor on monocytes and macrophages whose activation stimulates these cells to infiltrate tumors.
They first showed that mice with severed sensory nerves produce excessive BH4, churned out both by the injured nerve cells themselves and by macrophages — immune cells that infiltrate damaged nerves and inflamed tissue.
However, muscle from both lean and obese animals was infiltrated and surrounded by adipose tissue that contained significant numbers of F4 / 80 - positive macrophages (a and b).
These tumors were characterized by the presence of macrophages infiltrating the affected organs.