Lungs enlist immune cells to fight infections in capillaries
Neutrophils are quick in combatting bloodstream pathogens, study in mice finds
ON TRACK Neutrophils (red) crawl along the walls of capillaries in a mouse lung (tracks shown in blue). In mice deficient in a key protein, these immune cells couldn’t move as far (left) as those in mice that had the protein (right).
B.G. Yipp et al/Science Immunology 2017