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Imaging the Neutrophil Phagosome and Cytoplasm Using a Ratiometric pH Indicator
Published on: April 5, 2017
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Neutrophils, oxidative killing mechanisms and chemiluminescence
1a Department of Veterinary and Public Health , Massey University , Palmerston North.
New Zealand Veterinary Journal
|May 4, 2016
Abstract:
Neutrophils engaged in phagocytosis show a "respiratory burst" which is characterised by an increased consumption of oxygen, the production of hydrogen peroxide and unstable oxygen intermediates and an increase in the activity of the hexose monophosphate shunt. These metabolic events are accompanied by the emission of light from the nhaeocvtosing cell. Measurement of this chemiluminescence provides a convenient method of akessing the mkrokidal competence of neutrophils.

