granulocytes


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granulocytes

White blood cells with cytoplasm that contains granules. See leukocytes.
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C5a and LTB4 are present in patients' blister fluid in quantities that induce in vitro recruitment of granulocytes which are considered necessary for disease progression.
G-CSF (granulocyte-colony stimulating factor), also known as colony-stimulating factor 3 (CSF 3), is a glycoprotein that stimulates the bone marrow to produce granulocytes and stem cells and release them into the bloodstream.
* Immature granulocytes (includes promyelocytes, myelocytes, metamyelocytes)
These cells -- neutrophilic granulocytes -- represent the first line of the immune defence system.
Monitoring of inflammation status can be easily achieved at a clinic using laboratory testing for WBCs, neutrophils, granulocytes, and so on Therefore, in the present study, we tried to get some clues from routine blood test results for the prognosis of pancreatic cancer.
The existence of complement-dependent IgM antibodies against granulocytes in the serum of a patient who was receiving ATDs and suddenly developed agranulocytosis was reported, but antibody-mediated cytotoxicity was evident only against granulocytes taken from 2 of the 8 donors, suggesting that only a subset of patients receiving ATD may be susceptible to agranulocytosis [17].
Among the topics are Paul Ehrlich and the early history of granulocytes, the regulatory function of eosinophils, toll-like receptor signaling and its inducible proteins, myeloid cell phenotypes in susceptibility and resistance to helminth parasite infections, and tumor-induced myeloid-derived suppressor cells.
As shown in Table 7, lymphocyte counts and proportions decreased (p = 0.03) linearly with increasing doses of AFE, whereas the proportion of neutrophil granulocytes increased (p = 0.01) linearly.
Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) is a glycoprotein that stimulates the bone marrow to produce granulocytes and stem cells and release them into the blood.

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