{"id":87270,"date":"2019-01-31T14:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T22:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/understanding-white-blood-cells-defense-mechanisms-could-lead-to-better-treatments"},"modified":"2019-01-31T14:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T22:02:24","slug":"understanding-white-blood-cells-defense-mechanisms-could-lead-to-better-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/understanding-white-blood-cells-defense-mechanisms-could-lead-to-better-treatments","title":{"rendered":"Understanding white blood cells\u2019 defense mechanisms could lead to better treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/understanding-white-blood-cells-defense-mechanisms-could-lead-to-better-treatments2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experiencing a bacterial infection? You\u2019re generally prescribed antibiotics by your doctor. But how exactly do those antibiotics and your white blood cells work in tandem to improve your infection?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe human body\u2019s first line of defense against <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bacteria\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bacteria<\/a> are certain white blood cells called neutrophils,\u201d says J. Scott VanEpps, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine at Michigan Medicine. \u201cOne of their weapons are neutrophil extracellular traps, also called NETs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The traps are microscopic networks of fibers made primarily of DNA that are produced by the neutrophils to capture bacteria. But how exactly they work, VanEpps notes, is still unclear.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-01-white-blood-cells-defense-mechanisms.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;01-white-blood-cells-defense-mechanisms.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiencing a bacterial infection? You\u2019re generally prescribed antibiotics by your doctor. But how exactly do those antibiotics and your white blood cells work in tandem to improve your infection? \u201cThe human body\u2019s first line of defense against bacteria are certain white blood cells called neutrophils,\u201d says J. Scott VanEpps, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of emergency [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}