Sentences with phrase «recruiting phagocytes»

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.