Replenishing the Liver’s Immune Protections

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Posted on  by Dr. Francis Collins

Kupffer cells in Liver

Replenishing the Liver's Immune Protections

Most of our immune cells circulate throughout the bloodstream to serve as a roving security force against infection. But some immune cells don't travel much at all and instead safeguard a specific organ or tissue. That's what you are seeing in this electron micrograph of a type of scavenging macrophage,...

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