Killer T cell attacking cancer

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In this video we see a killer T cell of the immune system striking a cancer cells cell.

Teacher Gillian Griffiths:
” Cells of the immune system safeguard the body against pathogens. If cells in our bodies are contaminated by infections, or come to be cancerous, after that awesome cells of the body immune system recognize as well as destroy the affected cells. Cytotoxic T cells are really specific as well as reliable killers. They are able to damage infected or cancerous cells, without ruining healthy and balanced cells surrounding them. The Wellcome Trust moneyed lab of Professor Gillian Griffiths, at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, investigates simply how this is completed. By comprehending how this functions, we can create methods to control killer cells. This will certainly allow us to find methods to improve cancer cells treatments, as well as alleviate autoimmune diseases created when killer cells run amok and also attack healthy and balanced cells in our bodies.”

Cytotoxic T cells are simply 10 microns in size: about one-tenth the width of a human hair. These motion pictures are 92 times real time.

The initial video footage shown was made by Alex Ritter, a PhD pupil on the NIH-OxCam programme, in the research laboratory of Professor Gillian Griffiths at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and the Department of Medicine of the Clinical School of the University of Cambridge. The photos were obtained utilizing an Andor Revolution rotating disk system with an Olympus microscopic lense. Professor Griffiths is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow.

Links for more details:

http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk

http://www.cimr.cam.ac.uk/investigators/griffiths/index.html

http://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/about

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