Reactive oxygen species
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In chemistry and biology, reactive oxygen species are highly reactive chemicals formed from diatomic oxygen, water, and hydrogen peroxide. Some prominent ROS are the hydroperoxide radical or hydropero
Major cellular sources of ROS in living non-photosynthetic cells. From a review by Novo and Parola, 2008.
The scheme of fabrication process and therapeutic mechanism of thermo-responsive (MSNs@CaO2-ICG)@LA NPs for synergistic CDT/PDT with H2O2/O2 self-supply and GSH depletion
Phagocyte
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Phagocytes are cells that protect the body by ingesting harmful foreign particles, bacteria, and dead or dying cells. They include monocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, tissue dendritic cells, and mast
Scanning electron micrograph of a neutrophil phagocytosing anthrax bacilli (orange)
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in his laboratory
Micrograph of Gram-stained pus showing Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria inside phagocytes and their relative sizes
Monocytes in blood (Giemsa stain)