It is important to note that certain macrophages do not develop from monocytes, instead being derived from embryonic progenitors, for example Kupffer cells in the liver, and are often described as ...

Monocytes, a special type of white blood cell, secrete cytokines as inflammatory messengers that are crucial for an appropriate immune response. Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and ...

MLR may be a useful marker for assessing activity and progression in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Patients with CLL had significantly lower MLR values compared to healthy individuals, with ...

Brain macrophages serve diversified niches in the brain to maintain the organ’s homeostasis, and can play pathogenic roles in age-related brain disease. Hoping to one day replace dysfunctional ...

Efficacy and cost of peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) mobilization with low-dose cyclophosphamide (LD-CY) compared with plerixafor (P) in multiple myeloma (MM) patients (pts) treated with novel ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers report a mechanism wherein peripheral immune factors could impact central nervous system (CNS) function and behavior under stress. Stress-related ...

In this article, we focus on two related types of immune cell – the monocyte and the macrophage. We discuss what monocytes and macrophages are, how they are generated, their functions in the body and ...