Sentences with phrase «of phagocyte»

Visualization and Functional Evaluation of Phagocyte Extracellular Traps.

Statins enhance formation of phagocyte extracellular traps.

Confocal images show that hemocytes clearly locate and capture invading E. coli (Video S1) and optical sections collected at different focal planes through one hemocyte show labelled bacteria within the cytoplasm of the phagocyte (Figure 1D, E and F).

In response to fatty deposits on the walls of the arteries, a type of phagocyte called a macrophage identifies the growing lesions as trouble spots and infiltrates them, swelling and destabilizing the deposits.

Most of the cells are neutrophils, a type of phagocyte that normally circulates in the bloodstream.

The Omega 3 fatty acids found in oily fish — such as salmon, trout, halibut, and tuna — help boost our immune systems, by increasing the activity of phagocytes, which are white blood cells that combat harmful bacteria.

In this way, the researchers ultimately obtained a large number of different types of phagocytes.

Our innate immune system, made up mainly of phagocytes, protects our body by exterminating bacteria.

It mediates the immune response by enhancing the production of virus - fighting interferon and promoting the function of phagocytes, which engulf and destroy foreign pathogens.

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And this seems to be true at all times of the constituents of the blood, such as the phagocytes.

In Remodeling of the Mononuclear Phagocyte Network Underlies Chronic Inflammation and Disease Progression in Heart Failure: Critical Importance of the Cardiosplenic Axis, Prabhu and colleagues showed that immune cells that are stored in the spleen were intricately involved in the heart failure that follows a heart attack, or infarction, in a mouse - model system.

In order to investigate the migratory mechanisms of various phagocytes, researchers usually study genetically modified mice which display inflammatory diseases.

Phagocytes, or «eater cells,» engulf and digest other cells, and often display fragments of their prey to other elements of the immune system to prompt a broader immune response.

The cytokine then binds to its receptor on the surface of the Müller cells and induces the release of additional inflammatory proteins that attract phagocytes to the damaged retina.

Richard Karp, an immunologist at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, agrees that this is «an intriguing piece of work,» but cautions that there are «lots of loose ends to pull together,» such as how phagocytes can develop specificity against particular microbes.

A team of researchers led by Hongkang Xi and Menno van Lookeren Campagne, of the Department of Immunology at Genentech, Inc., in South San Francisco, Calif., discovered that a pro-inflammatory signaling protein, or cytokine, called IL - 33, plays a key role in recruiting phagocytes to damaged retina and inducing retinal degeneration.

In zero gravity, for instance, various immune system functions are impaired: Phagocytes known as macrophages, which kill and destroy invading bacteria, are no longer capable of protecting the person optimally from infections, which is why astronauts often suffer them.

We are therefore unable to visualise the outcome of the first interactions between insect phagocytes and invading microbes, interactions that will determine the future success of the infection itself.

In contrast, we show that the cells of the insect pathogen Photorhabdus instantly freeze the highly mobile phagocytes.

Moreover, examination of the role of Mcf1 can be dissected genetically using mutants that either interfere with its endocytosis into target cells, or Rac signalling mutants that hint at early and unexpected Mcf1 mediated effects on the phagocyte cytoskeleton.

It is possible, for example, to examine the effects of a recombinant bacterial toxin on infection, but it is more difficult to examine the role of specific virulence factors in neutralizing specific elements of the immune system, such as phagocytes.

Defective localization of the NADPH phagocyte oxidase to Salmonella - containing phagosomes in tumor necrosis factor p55 receptor - deficient macrophages.

The Ser / Thr kinase activity of the Yersinia protein kinase A (YpkA) is necessary for full virulence in the mouse, mollifying phagocytes, and disrupting the eukaryotic cytoskeleton.

This renewed interest in phagocytes provides an ideal starting point for a meeting of cell biologists, immunologists, and developmental biologists interested in further exploring the phagocyte's fundamental role in tissue biology, identifying gaps in our current knowledge, and defining disease pathways, beginning with infection and inflammation and extending beyond.

This centenary coincides with a surge of new molecular and cellular information about phagocytes that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries.

2016 marks the centenary of the death of Elie Metchnikoff, the Russian scientist who first discovered phagocytes.

The newly described mechanism involving gastric immunoregulatory mononuclear phagocytes brings an improved understanding of the complex and dynamic interactions between H. pylori and its human host.

Once engulfed by the phagocyte, the virus quickly turns the cell's own biology on its head, forcing it to produce copies of the virus.

Phagocyte disorders (innate)- phagocytes include many white blood cells of the innate immune system, and these cells patrol the body eating any pathogens they come across.

Several cells of the immune system can store vitamin C and require it to perform their task, especially phagocytes and t - cells.

In several preliminary studies — including one study of older individuals (with an average age of 86 years) consuming one half ounce of probiotic cheese every day for 4 weeks — researchers were able to detect immune system benefits, including increased activity of immune cells and increased numbers of some immune cell types (particularly phagocytes).

Lin, L., et al. «Protective effect of gypenosides against oxidative stress in phagocytes, vascular endothelial cells and liver microsomes,» Cancer Biotherapy, 8 (3): 263 - 72, 1993.