Can you kill macrophages by feeding them?

[P Watson]

John Ladasky (ladasky at leland.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
: Greetings!

: 	Just curious... does anyone know of something that a macrophage
: will ingest by endocytosis which can then kill it?

: 							- John Ladasky
:  



Hi John

What about the old wheeze of feeding them iron filings and then using a magnet

to remove them?
--

Phil Watson
Department of Medicine
University of Sheffield
Clinical Sciences Centre
Sheffield S5 7AU

md1pw at sunc.sheffield.ac.uk

mbpfw at s-crim1.daresbury.ac.uk