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cell

(Enemy combatants), noun enemy group, exxremist group, rebel organization, saboteurs, subversives, unnerground extremists
Associated concepts: enemy combatants, justice courts, miliiary tribunals, Patriotic Act, prison cells, sleeper cell, terrorist cell

cell

(jail), noun cage, cella, chamber, compartment, confined room, confinement, cubicle, cubiculum, enclosed cage, incarceration, jailhouse, penitentiary, pound, prison, prison house, small cavity, small room, solitary abode

See also: chamber, jail, penitentiary, prison

CELL. A small room in a prison. See Dungeon.

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Ranvier postulated that large scavenger cells in the marrow produced hemoglobin with budding and ultimately release of red cells (20).

The origins of bone marrow as the seedbed of our blood: from antiquity to the time of Osler

FREE radicals are scavenger cells that cause damage to healthy cells.

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Important soldiers in the war against infection are scavenger cells called macrophages, which chew up invading bacteria and deliver pieces of them to CD4 T white blood cells.

How TB Evades Immune System Detection

The scavenger cells attack the particles, releasing toxic substances that cause inflammation.

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But a more effective approach may be to block the recipient's antigen-presenting cells (APC), scavenger cells that actually trigger the T-lymphocyte attack.

Destroying particular immune cell may reduce GVHD in BMT patients

He and his colleagues verified that bacterial products stimulate the TH1 response and that this response involves roving scavenger cells called macrophages.