Science news articles about 'phagocytes'

  • A single VSOP can do a 'proton' magic!

    ... protons even without making a multimeric complex. Since VSOP is known to be expressed in phagocytes such as macrophage and neutrophil that remove infected pathogens, this finding may help to design ...
  • New therapeutic options for diabetes-related tissue injury

    ... complications suggest that activation of the inflammatory response is mediated in large part by phagocytic cells, macrophages, and polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Both cell types assume an aggressive ...
  • Biofilms use chemical weapons

    ... themselves to. The dilemma we face is that neither disinfectants and antibiotics, nor phagocytes and our immune system can destroy these biofilms. This is a particular problem in hospitals if these ...
  • New role for natural killers!

    ... for NK cells in activating other white blood cells (including 'T' lymphocytes and phagocytes) and in directing how the immune system responds to a wide range of infections has also been established. ...
  • What's the role of Kupffer cells in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis?

    ... in the liver parenchymal phase of CEUS using Levovist®, as well as Kupffer cell dynamics and phagocytic activity. The diagnosis of NASH is important in clinical hepatology, as this common disease is ...
  • JCI online early table of contents: Dec. 1, 2008

    ... . Further in vitro analysis revealed that lactoferrin inhibited the migration of phagocytes associated with inflammatory responses but not the migration of mononuclear phagocytes. Similar results were ...
  • Snoring or soaring? Strength of fruit-fly immune system varies

    ... of experiments, the researchers observed that, consistent with those earlier findings, the activity of phagocytes in normal fruit flies oscillates with their circadian rhythms. Flies infected with S. ...
  • Immunity stronger at night than during day

    ... at night had a better chance of surviving than did the flies infected during the day. In addition, the researchers also detected low phagocytic activity in some flies with a mutated circadian clock.

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