“Nanoscale plastics can breach the blood-brain barrier, [but] how [microplastics] cause brain functional irregularities remains unclear,” wrote the study’s authors.

Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells ...

 Tracking the reprogramming process revealed that these neutrophils facilitated tumour expansion by promoting new blood ...

Blood-borne neutrophils interact with, and then exit through, the endothelium of blood vessels, after which these cells die and must be removed safely. The balance between neutrophil survival and ...

mostly neutrophils and macrophages. Tracking these MPL-cells revealed that they sometimes became trapped within a blood vessel. Some cells exited the imaging field following a period of obstruction ...

Neutrophil recruitment follows a fine-tuned sequence of events of clearly defined steps. Once neutrophils have crossed the blood vessel wall they reach their target area by means of directed migration ...

More information: Yohei Takahashi et al, Antithrombin regulates neutrophil activities through the stimulation of C-type lectin family 1A, Blood Vessels, Thrombosis & Hemostasis (2024). DOI ...