lymphocyte Definition
lympho·cyte (lim′fō sīt′)
lymphocyte Related Forms
lym′pho·cyt′ic (-sit′ik) adjective
lymphocyte Usage Examples
Converse of object
- infiltrate: On the other hand, an absence of infiltrating lymphocytes was observed in cultures without IL-2.
- activate: Activated lymphocytes pass into the blood stream via the thoracic duct.
- circulate: The largest increase occurred in the absolute count of circulating lymphocytes.
Adjective modifier
- cytotoxic: Plays a role in negative selection of developing T cells and the killing of targets by cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
- th2: A different kind of allergic reaction involves white blood cells called TH2 lymphocytes.
- intraepithelial: The overlying ' dome ' epithelium contains large numbers of intraepithelial lymphocytes.
- peripheral: Moreover the human peripheral blood lymphocyte is a well characterized cell type.
- atypical: Atypical lymphocytes were present in a minority of cases.
- cultured: PFOA did not induce chromosomal aberrations in cultured human whole blood lymphocytes nor in mouse bone marrow erythrocytes.
Modifies a noun
- homing: I. FTY720 selectively decreases the number of circulating mature lymphocytes by acceleration of lymphocyte homing.
- recirculation: One problem with the latter approaches is that targeting widely expressed adhesion molecules will also inhibit lymphocyte recirculation to host tissues.
- proliferation: Figure 5. An image of a 3 H labeled lymphocyte proliferation assay.
- subset: Survival in a population sample is predicted by proportions of lymphocyte subsets.
- depletion: B lymphocyte depletion has been shown to be safe in the treatment of lymphoma.
- infiltration: In affected patients, exposure to gluten initiates an immune response causing T lymphocyte infiltration of the small bowel mucosa.
Noun used with modifier
- T: What type of T lymphocytes would you expect to be involved?
- T-helper: Moreover, there is also a high turnover of T-helper lymphocytes.
- reagent: Reagent B lymphocytes isolated for the identification of class II antibodies should contain less than 10 % of non-B cells.
- B: Research interests The B lymphocyte is my favorite cell type.
- helper: The main type of cell that HIV infects is the T helper lymphocyte.
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