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scavenger cells.
As a result, the fatty material builds up in
scavenger cells of the immune systems, called macrophages.
Instead, scientists have accumulated evidence that HIV in the central nervous system mainly replicates inside two types of related cells: macrophages (
scavenger cells that have migrated from the blood) and microglial cells (the resident immune cells of the brain and spinal cord).
But he suggests that immune-system
scavenger cells in the brain may directly contribute to the Alzheimer's scenario by over-producing beta amyloid themselves.
Such soluble substances could be primarily responsible for demyelination, according to McFarlin, who predicts that "in the next few years, a number of these factors will be shown to have direct effects on myelin.' The latest results supporting this optimism are new data indicating that
scavenger cells called macrophages secrete a chemical that disintegrates other cells and McFarlin's preliminary discovery that multiple sclerosis patients have a "peculiar pattern of T-cell receptor gene.' It is also possible, says McFarlin, that several genes responsible for regulation of the immune system are defective in multiple sclerosis.
The chief victims: mononuclear cells, the
scavenger cells that destroy bacteria and other foreign material.