Sepsis is not the only condition that leads to an unhealthy collection of
white blood cells in the lungs.
CANCER PATIENTS ARE OFTEN TREATED WITH CHEMOTHERAPY.THE DRUGS INVOLVED SUPPRESS
WHITE BLOOD CELLS, WHICH HELP THE BODY TO FIGHT INFECTION.
The proposed automatic
white blood cell classification system involves the following three stages: (1) the segmentation of a
white blood cell, (2) the extraction of effective features, and (3) the design of a classifier.
A subgroup of
white blood cells called B cells manufactures and secretes antibodies, which are proteins with shapes that can latch onto other proteins, the way an M and a W can fit together.
2) A type of
white blood cells called T-cells are withdrawn from the patient's blood.
When
white blood cells need to get to the site of an infection, they can exit the bloodstream via a process called diapedesis.
The study compared the levels of
white blood cells with the physical fitness of 452 men.
In predicting serious bacterial infection, C-reactive protein concentration had a likelihood ratio of 8.3, compared with 3 for absolute neutrophil count and 1.9 for
white blood cell count.
In order to understand whether a diet rich in healthy compounds might favorably influence platelet and
white blood cell levels, investigators conducted an analysis of the eating habits of nearly 15,000 healthy Italian men and women ages 35 or older as part of the large epidemiological "Moli-sani" study, named for the inhabitants of the Molise region of Central and Southern Italy.
This group, working independently of Gombart's team, had been focusing on macrophages, a type of
white blood cell deployed by the immune system to gobble up and destroy germs.
Inside the otherwise inconspicuous office space, in a clean laboratory, is one of the great steel cauldrons which holds these precious
white blood cell samples, suspended in time in liquid nitrogen vapour at minus-194 Centigrade.
In clinical trials conducted in patients with chronic phase CML after interferon failure, close to 90 per cent of patients had
white blood cell counts return to normal and approximately 50 per cent had a major cytogenetic response (measure of the percentage of cells that are positive for the Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome, a common marker for CML).