How do mobile cell types like leukocytes or metastatic cancer cells reach their place of action during immune surveillance or cancer dissemination, respectively? Researchers have now shown that ...

With an organ transplant, hematopoietic donor cells are transferred to the recipient. To study the relevance of the resulting microchimerism for allograft acceptance, we analyzed a rat model of ...

The movement of leukocytes from the circulatory system to the site of inflammation and subsequent attachment forms an integral part of the innate immune system. The three steps of leukocyte rolling, ...

Human white blood cells, known as leukocytes, swim using a newly described mechanism called molecular paddling, researchers report. This microswimming mechanism could explain how both immune cells and ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Jul., 1920), pp. 86-100 (15 pages) Streptococci, like certain other bacteria, produce a toxic substance apparently a toxin that destroys leukocytes.

Isolation of viable mononuclear and polymorphonuclear cells from blood serves as the starting point for a wide spectrum of immunology and cell biology studies. Unlike red blood cells and platelets, ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) say they have developed a novel technique to deliver therapeutic proteins to specific cells. They believe their method may prove useful in treating myriad ...