Sentences with phrase «macrophage scavenger receptors»
This contact causes the LDL lipoprotein to be oxidized, after which the particle attaches to macrophage scavenger receptors and is cleared by immune cells.
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On encountering the TB bacillus, receptors on immune - system scavenger cells known as macrophages stimulate the conversion of circulating vitamin D to its active form, which produces a peptide that destroys the bacillus.
PPARγ appears to be part of a network of transcription factors coordinately regulating lipid uptake and cholesterol efflux in macrophages by transcriptionally regulating the scavenger receptor CD36 and the oxysterol receptor LXRα (liver X receptor α).
Macrophages are scavenger cells that are part of your immune defense, and as such they have special receptors for AGEs, aptly called RAGEs (think: raging inflammation).