Phagocytosis of bacteria stimulates "professional" phagocytes to produce and release endogenous pyrogen (EP), the protein that mediates fever. To determine whether "nonprofessional" phagocytes also have this capacity, mouse and human fibroblasts and HeLa cells were cultured after ingestion of latex or chicken erythrocytes (CE), and EP release into culture supernate measured by mouse assay. No d...

Objective. This study examines the effects of iron ions Fe(3+) on the respiratory burst of phagocytes isolated from peritoneal effluents of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients, as an in vitro model of iron overload in end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Material and Methods. Respiratory burst of peritoneal phagocytes was measured by chemiluminescence method. Results. At the hi...

Pediculus humanus humanus is an human ectoparasite which represents a serious public health threat because it is vector for pathogenic bacteria. It is important to understand and identify where bacteria reside in human body lice to define new strategies to counterstroke the capacity of vectorization of the bacterial pathogens by body lice. It is known that phagocytes from vertebrates can be hos...

The production and deployment of phagocytes are central functions of the hematopoietic system. In the 1950s, radioisotopic studies demonstrated the high production rate and short lifespan of neutrophils and allowed researchers to follow the monocytes as they moved from the marrow through the blood to become tissue macrophages, histiocytes, and dendritic cells. Subsequently, the discovery of the...

Active Peer-to-Peer (P2P) worms present serious threats to the global Internet by exploiting popular P2P applications to perform rapid topological self-propagation. Active P2P worms pose more deadly threats than normal scanning worms because they do not exhibit easily detectable anomalies, thus many existing defenses are no longer effective. We propose an immunity system with Phagocytes — a sma...

The aim of the experiment was to examine effect a diet enriched with Lactobacillus plantarum and/or β-glucan on immune parameters in juvenile tench (Tinca tinca). Fish were fed for 14 days different diets (phase 1 experiment), dry commercial starter feed control group or same supplemented with: 1% β-1,3/1,6-glucan G, 108 cfu L. g-1 L, + G+L. During consecutive all fish alone 2). stimulating eff...

Activation of lung phagocytes, whether involving residential or recruited phagocytic cells (macrophages, monocytes, neutrophils), results in a series of products important for development of inflammatory injury of the lung. An understanding of the mechanisms of cell activation as well as how products of these activated cells interact with cellular and non-cellular targets to bring about tissue ...

The clearance of apoptotic cells is important to maintain tissue homeostasis. The engulfment of apoptotic cells is performed by professional phagocytes, such as macrophages, and also by non-professional phagocytes, such as mesenchymal cells. Here, we show that vimentin, a cytoskeletal protein, functions as an engulfment receptor on neighboring phagocytes, which recognize O-linked β-N-acetylgluc...

Bacterial pneumonia is a common and dangerous illness. Mononuclear phagocytes, which comprise monocyte, resident and recruited macrophage, and dendritic cell subsets, are critical to antimicrobial defenses, but the dynamics of their recruitment to the lungs in pneumonia is not established. We hypothesized that chemokine-mediated traffic of mononuclear phagocytes is important in defense against ...