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Article: Researchers from National Institutes of Health publish new studies and findings in the area of phagocytosis.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- June 3, 2009
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"Human leukocytes, including macrophages and neutrophils, are phagocytic immune cells that capture and engulf pathogens and subsequently destroy them in intracellular vesicles. To accomplish this vital task, these leukocytes utilize two basic cell behaviors-chemotaxis for chasing down infectious pathogens and phagocytosis for destroying them," researchers in the United States report (see also Phagocytosis).
"The molecular mechanisms controlling these behaviors are not well understood for immune cells. Interestingly, a soil amoeba, Dictyostelium discoideum, uses these same behaviors to pursue and injest its bacterial food source and to organize its multi-cellular ...
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