How to pronounce “macrophage” in English

The macrophages keep trying and failing, and in the process, they release inflammatory chemicals that damage the surrounding lung tissue.

And macrophages know exactly what to do with cholesterol.

This is a macrophage.

But the macrophage gets poisoned by contaminants in that detritus, which eventually cause it to become more of a problem than a solution.

is poisoning these macrophages, this compound 7-Ketocholesterol.

And those contaminants poison the macrophage.

The particular part of the macrophages that stops working is this thing called the lysosome, which is kind of the garbage disposal machinery of the cell.

But there are certain contaminants in that detritus which the macrophage is not equipped to handle.

So you're going to slow down the poisoning of macrophages.

That's one thing that macrophages do.

It's not by any means the only thing that accumulates in macrophages over time.

So instead of processing the cholesterol, this oxidized cholesterol poisons the macrophage.

This is the beginning of atherosclerosis when a white blood cell, a macrophage, in the artery wall becomes poisoned by contaminants, oxidized

And in particular, what we might like to do is give macrophages the enhanced ability to break down oxidized cholesterol,

A foam cell is a cell that used to be a perfectly healthy self-respecting white blood cell, a macrophage.

chemically different and, in various ways, not amenable to processing by the macrophage.

In particular, what happens here is that there are a type of white blood cell, called a macrophage, which goes into the artery

Atherosclerosis, as I mentioned earlier, starts with white blood cells, a particular type of white blood cell called a macrophage-- excuse me-- going into the artery wall and clearing up garbage,

When these asbestos fibers lodge into the lungs, the body treats them like invaders, specialized cells called macrophages move in, cells whose job it is to engulf

They start to basically get angry, and the cells around them get angry, and more macrophages come in to solve the problem.