Crossword clues for lymphocyte
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Wiktionary
n. (context cytology immunology English) A type of white blood cell or leukocyte that is divided into two principal groups and a null group; B-lymphocytes, which produce antibody in the humoral immune response, T-lymphocytes, which participate in the cell-mediated immune response and the null group, which contains natural killer cells, cytotoxic cells that participate in the innate immune response.
WordNet
n. an agranulocytic leukocyte that normally makes up a quarter of the white blood cell count but increases in the presence of infection [syn: lymph cell]
Wikipedia
A lymphocyte is one of the subtypes of white blood cell in a vertebrate's immune system. Lymphocytes include natural killer cells (NK cells) (which function in cell-mediated, cytotoxic innate immunity), T cells (for cell-mediated, cytotoxic adaptive immunity), and B cells (for humoral, antibody-driven adaptive immunity). They are the main type of cell found in lymph, which prompted the name lymphocyte.
Usage examples of "lymphocyte".
Mouse Interleukin-4 by a Recombinant Ectromelia Virus Suppresses Cytolytic Lymphocyte Responses and Overcomes Genetic Resistance to Mousepox.
A special cocktail of granulocytes, monocytes, lymphocytes and soluble proteins.
The amebocytes of starfish were recently found to contain a material that immobilizes the macrophages of mammals, resembling a product of immune lymphocytes in higher forms.
Within seven hours lymphocytes began to accumulate, marking the beginning of another level of immunological defense.
A single lymphocyte existed for every thousand red blood cells coursing through the blood stream, and the leukemic cell was the master of disguise.
Behind her eyelids, she imagined her blood as a thick red river full of amoeba-like creatures: T cells, lymphocytes, phagocytes, doughnut-shaped hemoglobin, tumbling over and over, rushing past.
The human body attacks embedded foreign objects through sophisticated immune reactions: inflammatory responses, antigens, macrophages, lymphocytes, fibroblasts.
Put a drop of my blood between two cover-slips and pull, stain the dried smear with Wright's, and under the microscope you will see biconcave red cells, polymor-pholcucocytes in their infinite variety, the dull-blue stodgi-ness of monocytes, lymphocytes with sky-clear cytoplasm.
I just have to select out a better B lymphocyte to make my hybridoma cell.
He had to save the white blood cell cultures -- his special lymphocytes.
He had to save the white blood cell cultures--his special lymphocytes.
Who would have thought that a sensitized lymphocyte could be fused with a cancer cell to make a kind of cellular antibody factory.
FasL causes cell death in maternal lymphocytes as they move in to attack the embryo.
What's the difference between a blood cell such as a lymphocyte, and a muscle cell?