News tagged with b lymphocyte

The existence of neutrophils in the spleen discovered

For the first time, it has been discovered that neutrophils exist in the spleen without there being an infection. This important finding made by the research group on the Biology of B Cells of IMIM (Hospital ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New study shows how B cells may generate antibodies after vaccination

Steve Reiner, MD, professor of Medicine, and Burton Barnett, a doctoral student in the Reiner lab at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have shown how immune cells, called B ...

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created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

B cell receptor inhibitor causes chronic lymphocytic leukemia remission

A new, targeted approach to treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia has produced durable remissions in a Phase I/II clinical trial for patients with relapsed or resistant disease, investigators report at the 53rd Annual Meeting ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A better target for B-cell lymphomas: From a library of MAG antagonists to nanomolar CD22 ligands

Patients suffering from B-cell lymphomas can be treated with antibodies directed against the B-lymphocyte antigen CD20.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stem cells central to pathogenesis of mature lymphoid tumors

New research suggests that blood stem cells can be involved in the generation of leukemia, even when the leukemia is caused by the abnormal proliferation of mature cells. The study, published by Cell Press in the August 16th ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers discover way to reverse immune system aging

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a way to reverse the aging process by removing old B lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell in the vertebrate immune system) from ...

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created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

One lock, many keys

German researchers discover how immune system B-cells can react to very different substances.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Drug in new class of targeted therapies shows early promise against blood-related cancers

A Phase I clinical trial of SNS-032, one of the first in a new class of drugs that inhibit cyclin-dependent kinases, demonstrated the drug's safety and potential clinical action against advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Poorly understood cell plays role in immunity against the flu

A new understanding of a certain cell in the immune system may help guide scientists in creating better flu vaccines, report researchers from the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Immune Disease Institute ...

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created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Enzyme necessary for development of healthy immune system

Mice without the deoxycytidine kinase (dCK) enzyme have defects in their adaptive immune system, producing very low levels of both T and B lymphocytes, the major players involved in immune response, according to a study by ...

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created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Immune response to spinal cord injury may worsen damage

After spinal cord injury, certain immune cells collect in the spinal fluid and release high levels of antibodies. What, if anything, those antibodies do there is unknown.

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created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gene shut-down may offer early warning of chronic leukemia

A new study shows that certain genes are turned off early, before clinical signs of the disease appear, in the development of chronic leukemia.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Protein complex key in avoiding DNA repair mistakes, cancer

As the body creates antibodies to fight invaders, a three-protein DNA repair complex called MRN is crucial for a normal gene-shuffling process to proceed properly, University of Michigan research shows.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Does peripheral T-lymphocyte subpopulations correlate with hepatitis B virus load?

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a dynamic process with variable biochemical, virological and histological profiles at different stages of the infection, depending on host and viral factors. Furthermore, this profile ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cell division find prompts overhaul of immune response modeling

Research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute into the mechanics of how two types of white blood cells grow and die is fundamentally changing the development of computer models that are used to predict how ...

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created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1