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Cell of the Month – Kupffer Cells

Welcome back to our Cell of the Month series! This time, we are talking about Kupffer cells - what they are, what they do, and why we should want to learn more about them!  Kupffer cells - the gatekeepers of the liver First described by German anatomist Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer in 1876, Kupffer cells are a subset of macrophages that reside in the liver. Morphologically, they vary in size and have an irregular stellate shape, with bean-shaped nuclei. Elongated processes that extend from the cytoplasm help them to anchor to the luminal surface of sinusoidal endothelial cells.  Kupffer cells are the largest population of tissue-resident macrophages, constituting approx. 80-90 % of...

The Forgotten Process – Trogocytosis!

Trogocytosis, from trogo meaning ‘to gnaw’ or ‘to nibble’ in Ancient Greek, is an active process during which one cell receives cell surface molecules and membrane fragments from another cell in a unidirectional and cell-contact dependent manner.  Within immune cells,...

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Cell of the Month: Mast Cells

Mast cells are tissue-resident immune cells derived from the myeloid lineage, and along with basophils, eosinophils and neutrophils, they belong to the granulocyte family of white blood cells.  First discovered and named almost 200 years ago by German pathologist...

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