Sentence examples for lymphocytes from inspiring English sources
The word 'lymphocytes' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to a type of white blood cell that is part of your immune system. For example, "Lymphocytes help the body fight off bacteria and other infectious agents."
But there is a second class of T cell, not attacked by HIV, that carries a different surface protein, known as CD8.These cellsells are known as "killer" lymphocytes.
What really interested everyone, though, was whether the engineered lymphocytes might fend off HIV and in one case it seems they did.A month after the transfusion, when the tweaked cells had had a chance to bed down, six of the 12 volunteers stopped taking their antiretroviral drugs, to see what would happen.
As he reports in the latest issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, lymphocytes from the depressed women responded much less than those from the normal women when exposed to agents that induce proliferation.One explanation for this relies on the observation that depression is often accompanied by a hormonal imbalance in the brain.
Dr Giulivi and her colleagues did just that, and then examined the activity of the lymphocytes' mitochondria.The children in question were randomly selected from a previous study on autism.
It takes a month for the body to make antibodies to a newly encountered pathogen, so a bunch of immune-system cells called B lymphocytes first fire back in a general way.
These lymphocytes exist to kill body cells that pose a threat, such as cells infected by viruses, and also cancer cells.CTLA-4's role is to calm lymphocytes down and stop them proliferating.
It is a so-called "checkpoint inhibitor", which by removing a blocking mechanism allows immune-system cells called T-lymphocytes to attack cancer cells (as they are pictured doing above).
The team members were thus able to prepare T-lymphocytes with crocked CCR5 genes which, they hoped, would be proof against HIV infection.
And specific varieties of antibody, aimed at specific targets, can be generated from cultures of genetically identical cells created for the task in other words, cellular clones.Ipilimumab locks onto and thus blocks the action of a protein, CTLA-4, which sits on the outer membranes of immune-system cells called T-lymphocytes.
As they explain in the New England Journal of Medicine, by damaging a gene called CCR5 they hope to treat and possibly cure infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.CCR5 encodes a protein that sits on the surface membranes of T-lymphocytes, cells which are part of the immune system.
These helped show the importance of reservoirs of the virus that linger in cells other than the T-lymphocytes that are its chief target.
