Complications and Risk Factors Associated With a High WBC Count. Blood cancers and autoimmune diseases that cause overproduction of abnormal white blood cells can cause susceptibi ...

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 ...

While most current research and immunotherapeutic strategies focus on other immune cells, such as T or natural killer cells, their findings highlight the importance of basophils in antitumor immunity, ...

Some cells do repairs if you get a cut. Red blood cells deliver oxygen and take away rubbish. And your white blood cells are like police looking for germs. There's a lot going on inside you!

Despite multiple studies showing that a normal white blood cell (WBC) count does not exclude serious disease, physicians in all specialties continue to behave as if it did. To assess whether a ...

New research from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has found that white blood cells which 'remember' past inflammatory events are quick to overreact, raising the risk of blood clots.

The Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center held a lecture on how certain white blood cells in the immune ...

Neutrophils, the most common type of white blood cell, home in to areas of injury and inflammation to fight infections. Prior studies in both animals and humans have reported that neutrophils can ...

A nationwide team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and UPMC Children's Hospital of ...

Types of blood cell and cell fragments: red blood cells white blood cells platelets This table explains the functions of various blood components. \(\textup{haemoglobin}+\textup{oxygen} ...