«MCP - 1 is a chemokine, which induces cells to move along a gradient
recruiting white cells and osteoclasts in tissues,» says Dr. Partridge.
Not exact matches
«We found that a protein expressed by gut bacteria called Bacteroides works to prevent IBD by rapidly
recruiting white blood
cells to kill a
cell of the immune system that is responsible for orchestrating IBD,» says McCoy.
Then there's the West Palm Beach symposium, held to
recruit participants for a study testing what happens when aging people get infusions of plasma (the fluid part of blood packed with signaling proteins and other molecules but no red or
white cells) from young people who've taken a drug meant to activate their immune system.
In this study, researchers
recruited 47 medication - free (some as little as one week) melancholic depressive inpatients and assessed their levels of identified genes in a population of
white blood
cells called monocytes.