How to Use macrophage in a Sentence

macrophage

noun

• Where macrophages are found in alveoli, the tiny air sacs in the lungs.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• These large cells, called macrophages, are the cleanup crew of the immune system.
  — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
• As a result, the body views a tattoo as a wound and sends out macrophages, or white blood cells, to heal the area.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 10 May 2023
• Her subject was macrophages, big, hungry cells on the front lines of the defense.
  — Judith Shulevitz, New York Times, 11 June 2018
• Larsen, of Mayo Clinic Arizona, said the team found some signs of lipids in macrophages, though not large amounts.
  — Andrew Joseph, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2019
• Then there are the reapers, creatures with tentacles that took a cue from the macrophage (a type of white blood cell).
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2022
• As part of this process, immune cells called macrophages migrate to the fat tissue.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• Less than 10% of the macrophages treated solely with saline had pseudopods.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
• Once inside the macrophage, the bacteria or virus is torn apart by enzymes.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2016
• No such monocyte or macrophage infection was seen in the control group of healthy blood donors.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• Those that do not look roundish. The team report that more than 80% of the macrophages treated with lipopolysaccharide and then saline grew long pseudopods.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
• Clinicians at the University of Utah also found the same type of cells, known as lipid-laden macrophages, in the lungs of six patients.
  — Lena H. Sun, The Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2019
• Cancer cells avoid destruction by macrophages in two ways.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2018
• When that happens, broken down cells release lipids, which can make their way into macrophages.
  — Andrew Joseph, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2019
• First, despite various, non-lethal efforts to kill off the cells that contained the tattoo, the macrophages worked so fast to engulf the color that the ink remained in tact.
  — refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Smoke can also hamper what's called the macrophage function, the ability of lungs to protect themselves.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
• These bind with proteins on a virus’s surface, disabling it and marking it for destruction by cells called macrophages.
  — The Economist, 1 Apr. 2020
• Vitamin D boosts the function of macrophages and T-cells, members of the immune system that fight pathogens attempting to enter the body.
  — Jill Langlois, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2020
• At Carisma, Gill and his colleagues look to get around these obstacles though a different immune cell called the macrophage.
  — Ilana Yurkiewicz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2019
• There are cells called macrophages that go after invading microbes.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2023
• Another potential strategy is to deplete the macrophage that churn out the culprit cytokines, Huang says—that, too, worked in the mice.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 17 Jan. 2020
• Instead of breaking down, the ink is passed from macrophage to macrophage, which is why the tattoo becomes fuzzier over time, especially as the skin itself ages and warps.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 10 May 2023
• The initial immune response involves cells of the body’s innate immune system, such as macrophages and neutrophils.
  — Laura Haynes, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2018
• In the lower center of the image, a dozen or so Leishmania parasites can be seen infecting a macrophage in the amasitote form.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2011
• Lungs—and subsequently the rest of the body—are protected from these contaminants by a thin layer of lipids that coat the lungs and some very important cells called macrophages.
  — Wired, 4 Sep. 2019
• As a tattoo is given, macrophages descend to capture invading ink.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
• For the cultured cells, exposure to e-cigarette vapor induced many of the same changes in lung macrophages that have been seen in cigarette smokers and patients with COPD, the researchers note.
  — Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
• The innate immune system, composed of white blood cells such as macrophages, natural killer cells and neutrophils, was supposed to have no such memory.
  — Jop De Vrieze, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2020
• In Schnitzler syndrome, according to current thinking, the most primitive part of the immune system — a type of white blood cell known as the macrophage — goes wild and instructs the body to act as if it is infected.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
• Generally, cells in the lungs called alveolar macrophages will pick up the particulates and clear them out – at reasonable doses.
  — Christopher T. Migliaccio, Fortune, 7 June 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024