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including interleukin-3 (IL-3), hallmarks of T cell exhaustion. Treating the tumor-bearing mice with IL-3 reduced tumor growth and metastasis. However, antibody depletion of CTLs reversed this effect, ...

White blood cells are a type of immune cell ... Lymphocytes circulate throughout your body, and create antibodies, proteins ...

Neutrophils, one of the immune system warriors that were thought to be all the same, turn out to be diverse. Unfortunately, ...

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 ...

Your spleen might not get the glory of organs like your heart or brain, but its contributions to your immune system are ...

New research suggests that decreased activity of ELOVL2 -- a key enzyme in lipid metabolism -- accelerates white blood cell aging and alters genes associated with the onset of blood cancers.

Plasma cells, a type of white blood cell, help keep you healthy by making antibodies, proteins that fight infection. Sometimes, healthy plasma cells can become cancerous myeloma cells and multiply ...

Each white blood cell makes only one type of antibody. Each type of antibody attaches to only one specific antigen. The organism must make different antibodies for each type of pathogen.

Researchers have identified that an enzyme involved in lipid metabolism speeds up the immune system changes associated with ...