NSAS Idea Suggestion #21 - The Amazing World Of Neutrophils

In this series I propose daily ideas for new members who are interested in becoming #steemstem authors.

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Go to the comments and write: "I, username, claim this idea"

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The Amazing World Of Neutrophiles

This post was mainly inspired by a picture I saw in my microbiology book about Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (I would have shared this but copyright...). Anyways, what you see is a dense network of protruding fibers that trapped a bacterium. It is an immune response, in which the neutrophil undergoes a very rare form of cell death by basically bursting and shooting out its DNA which has bound antimicrobial agents. My knowledge with these is limited because we did not talk about them in lecture and I am right in the middle of finals week/graduating so I did not have time to read much about this.
For this idea, I propose that you go and write a short introduction about neutrophils - What are they, what is their role in our body, how are they made. It seems that they also play a role in autoimmune diseases, so that is another aspect worth taking a loot at. You could highlight the NET formation and function and outline their role in immunity. Here are some links to open source journal articles. Depending on your background, you may have access to more sources. NET and neutrophils have been researched a lot and there are quite a few articles out there.

• Neutrophil extracellular traps: Is immunity the second function of chromatin? - Link
• Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in autoimmune diseases: A comprehensive review - Link
• Impaired neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation: a novel innate immune deficiency of human neonates Link
• Neutrophil Extracellular Traps and Its Implications in Inflammation: An Overview - Link
• Neutrophil extracellular traps (Overview on ScienceDirect) - Link

This idea would be most appropriate for someone with experiences in microbiology or medicine. You would more or less write a review article (obviously much lesser scale than an actual review). The priority should be to write it understandable, meaning, do not just throw technical terms at the reader to show how smart you are, but try to engage your reader and try to make them curious about science.

Previous Idea Suggestions:

• Suggestion #1: Onions and their Health Benefits
• Suggestion #2: Tea - The Silent Killer
• Suggestion #3: Essential Oils
• Suggestion #4: Biotechnology And Beer-Brewing
• Suggestion #5: Antioxidant Hype - Claimed by Hive account@deholt, build on by Hive account@csusbgeochem1
• Suggestion #6: Your Diet Changes Your Gut Microbiome Faster Than You Think
• Suggestion #7: Target Delivery Of Cancer Therapeutics – claimed by Hive account@lianaakobian
• Suggestion #8: Science Behind The Conspiracy
  Theory Phenomenon - claimed by Hive account@egotheist
• Suggestion #9: Influence Of Drug Overuse On The Human Microbiome
• Suggestion #10: Does The Brain Talk To The Immune System?
• Suggestion #11: Synthetic Cells
• Suggestion #12: The Forest – claimed by Hive account@davidrhodes124
• Suggestion #13: The Science Behind Friendships
• Suggestion #14: Is Bread Certain Death? – claimed by Hive account@davidrhodes124
• Suggestion #15: Our Savior Yoghurt
• Suggestion #16: The Perfect Shot
• Suggestion #17: Sexy Science
• Suggestion #18: Just How Dangerous Is Air Pollution?
• Suggestion #19: Charge Transfer In DNA
• Suggestion #20: Engineering Lactic Acid Bacteria To "Vaccinate"
  Against HIV - claimed by Hive account@micro24

Helpful Links

• How To Find Scientific Sources For Free - Post
• SteemSTEM Guidelines - Link
• Everything You Need to Know about Uploading Images on Steemit [Tutorial & MarkDown] – Link - by Hive account@katerinaramm

As always,
Cheers Hive account@lesshorrible!