Scientists Show that White Blood Cells "Crawl"
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 10:35
in Health & Medicine
New research reveals that white blood cells "crawl" in order to travel the endothelium and get to the site of infection or injury. This motion is different than was commonly assumed. In future work, the scientists plan to study whether aggressive immune reactions can be regulated by interrupting the "digging" of immune cell legs.
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