Efficient measurement of opsonising antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum merozoites. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Antibodies targeting merozoites are important in protection from malaria. Therefore, merozoite surface proteins are attractive vaccine candidates. There is a need for robust functional assays to investigate mechanisms of acquired immunity and vaccine ...
Danika L Hill +6 more
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CD22 blockade restores homeostatic microglial phagocytosis in aging brains
Nature, 2019 Microglia maintain homeostasis in the central nervous system through phagocytic clearance of protein aggregates and cellular debris. This function deteriorates during ageing and neurodegenerative disease, concomitant with cognitive decline.
John V. Pluvinage +17 more
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High-throughput quantification of early stages of phagocytosis
BioTechniques, 2013 Phagocytosis—the engulfment of cells and foreign bodies—is an important cellular process in innate immunity, development, and disease. Quantification of various stages of phagocytosis, especially in a rapid screening fashion, is an invaluable tool for ...
Jeremy Changyu Yeo +3 more
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The Entamoeba histolytica, Arp2/3 Complex Is Recruited to Phagocytic Cups through an Atypical Kinase EhAK1. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2015 The parasite Entamoeba histolytica is the etiological agent of amoebiasis and phagocytosis plays a key role in virulence of this organism. Signaling pathways involved in activation of cytoskeletal dynamics required for phagocytosis remain to be ...
Mrigya Babuta +3 more
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Physical phase field model for phagocytosis [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We propose and study a simple, physical model for phagocytosis, i.e. the active, actin-mediated uptake of micron-sized particles by biological cells. The cell is described by the phase field method and the driving mechanisms of uptake are actin ratcheting, modeled by a dynamic vector field, as well as cell-particle adhesion due to receptor-ligand ...
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An Intuitive Automated Modelling Interface for Systems Biology [PDF]
EPTCS 9, 2009, pp. 73-86, 2009 We introduce a natural language interface for building stochastic pi calculus models of biological systems. In this language, complex constructs describing biochemical events are built from basic primitives of association, dissociation and transformation.
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Journal of Neuroinflammation, 2011 Background Traumatic injury to axons produces breakdown of axons and myelin at the site of the lesion and then further distal to this where Wallerian degeneration develops.
Reichert Fanny +4 more
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Theoretical model of efficient phagocytosis driven by curved membrane proteins and active cytoskeleton forces [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Phagocytosis is the process of engulfment and internalization of comparatively large particles by the cell, that plays a central role in the functioning of our immune system. We study the process of phagocytosis by considering a simplified coarse grained model of a three-dimensional vesicle, having uniform adhesion interaction with a rigid particle, in
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Analysis of cellular responses of macrophages to zinc ions and zinc oxide nanoparticles: a combined targeted and proteomic approach [PDF]
Nanoscale 6, 11 (2014) 6102-14, 2014 Two different zinc oxide nanoparticles, as well as zinc ions, are used to study the cellular responses of the RAW 264 macrophage cell line. A proteomic screen is used to provide a wide view of the molecular effects of zinc, and the most prominent results are cross-validated by targeted studies.
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High fat diet deviates PtC-specific B1 B cell phagocytosis in obese mice [PDF]
, 2014 Phagocytosis had been attributed predominantly to "professional" phagocytes such as macrophages, which play critical roles in adipose tissue inflammation.
Allaimo, Danielle +8 more
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