Psoriasis is a condition caused when certain infection-fighting blood cells invade the skin.
The thought is that white blood cells invade artery walls and release damaging chemicals, leading to plaque formation.
Cancer cells dig into neighboring tissue in essentially the same way that inflammatory cells invade the lining of arteries, Dr. Libby said.
Fibrin joins the platelets to form a clot, and white blood cells invade the area to remove contamination by foreign material.
Once there, however, these blood cells invade the endothelium, causing it to become inflamed.Such inflammation is, in fact, a normal response to bacterial infection.
At this stage the primordial germ cells invade the rudiments of the gonads and become associated with the somatic cells of the germinal ridge.
As cells invade and proliferate inside the fibrin scaffold, they secrete proteases that break down fibrin.
These cells invade the ECM and migrate along a newly formed matrix of fibronectin and type I collagen [8].
A tiny tumor can eventually devastate the body, if its cells invade other tissues.
Such images could help researchers learn how cancer cells invade other tissues.
Preceding disease onset, large numbers of effector cells invade the CNS, with only negligible numbers left in the periphery.
