Lymphocytes are white blood cells that help the body fight infection and disease. The healthy range for an adult is between 1,000 and 4,800 lymphocytes per microliter (µL) of blood. Doctors will ...

Antigen-activated lymphocytes undergo clonal expansion ... cytotoxic and pro-inflammatory functions or into plasma cells that secrete antibodies (the soluble forms of the antigen-specific receptors).

The study in the European Respiratory Journal used advanced spatial mapping techniques to compare healthy lung tissues and tissues from patients with fatal IPF. The researchers discovered that disease ...

Fusion unlocked the key to overcoming these limitations. Köhler and Milstein fused the antibody-producing plasma cells with immortal myeloma cancer cells. This hybrid cell line had the ...

BCMA is preferentially expressed on plasma cells and other mature B cells in blood 5. These cells originate with B-lymphocyte progenitors ... with ‘bi-specific’ antibodies made up of two ...

It’s of particular interest to several research groups and companies currently developing plasma therapies, whereby antibody-containing blood plasma ... macrophages from induced pluripotent stem cells ...

However, when a pathogen invades the body with different antigens, specialised cells called lymphocytes produce antibodies which attach to the foreign antigens, disabling and destroying them.