Lymphocytes, B and

White Blood Cells. White blood cells, or leukocytes, have varying function and morphology. Mononuclear leukocytes include lymphocyte B and T-ceUs, monocytes, and progenitor cells. Polynuclear granulocytes include neutrophils, basophils, and eosinophils. The most important groups in cell separation are lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes. 

Immune responses are mediated through the lymphocytes called B cells and T cells. Lymphocytes are a particular type of white blood cell. White blood cells (leukocytes) are divided into granulocytes (neutrophils, 55-70% eosinophils, 1-3% and basophils, 0.5-1%) and agranulocytes (lymphocytes [B and T cells], 20-40% and monocytes, 1-6%). There are 5000-10,000 white blood cells per milliliter of blood, compared with five million red blood cells in the same volume. 

Mitochondrial ATPase inhibition. Smoke extract, in the mouse brain mitochondria culture in the presence or absence of vitamin C for 60 minutes, inhibited mitochondrial ATPase and cytochrome C oxidase activities in a dose-dependent manner. The effect of extract on mitochondria swelling response to calcium stimulation was dependent on calcium concentrations. The extract treatment induced mitochondrial inner membrane damage and vacuolization of the matrix, whereas the outer mitochondrial membrane was preserved. Nicotine produced no significant damage . Mitogenic activity. Water extract of the dried leaf, administered to mice at a concentration of 0.05%, was active on lymphocytes from mesenteric lymph node and lymphocytes B and T. Intracellular Ca level was unchanged. The extract was active on... 

The lipidosterolic extract of saw palmetto, in cells infiltrating the adenoma (lymphocyte T, lymphocyte B, and macrophages with a high proportion of lymphocyte T), modified the inflammatory process. Many of... 

Lymphocytes are one of the primary cell types involved in the immune response. There are two general types of lymphocytes, B and T. Both are derived from bone marrow lymphoid stem cells, but T cells go through an additional maturation process in the thymus. Although the morphology of T cells and B cells is similar, the functions of these two types are distinct. After antigen exposure, B cells develop into antibody-producing plasma cells, whereas T cells are divided into functional subtypes that possess distinct cell surface antigens. 

Lymphocytes (B and T lymphocytes with their subpopulations C-4, C-8) belong to the cellular immune system. They play an important role in practically all defence mechanisms and can be activated directly by antigens and mitogens, or indirectly by cytokines or substances released from macrophages. 

U.S. adults (Springfield, Green County, MO) near mining/smelting operations (N = 433) Median PbB = 4.3 ig/dl Lymphocyte B and multiple T-cell phenotypes No changes in B or T cells with PbB Sarasua et al. (2000) r 00... 

Primary immunodeficiencies are uncommon, and may occur in 1 in 10,000 individuals (6). Many primary immunodeficiencies are hereditary and congenital, and first appear in infants and children. Primary immunodeficiencies are classified into four main groups (7) relating to the lymphocytes (B-ceUs, T-ceUs, or both), phagocytes, or the complement cascade (8). Primary deficiency diseases result from B-ceU defects in 50% of cases, from T-ceU defects in ca 10%, and from combined B- and T-ceU defects in ca 20%. Phagocytic disorders account for 18% and complement defects occur in 2% of all cases. 

NF-kB regulates both innate and adaptive immune responses ( immune defense) [2]. Understanding the function of NF-kB in the development, maintenance, and activation of cells from the immune system (including hematopoietic cells, macrophages, dendritic cells, B and T lymphocytes) has greatly benefited from the analysis of knockout mice in which individual NF-kB family members were defective. 

NF-kB is also crucial for the proper functioning of the adaptive immune system not only by acting on the immune cells themselves but also by participating in the development and organization of the secondary lymphoid organs (lymph nodes, spleen, and Peyer s patches), in which both B and T lymphocytes undergo maturation and activation. NF-kB proteins have an important role in lymphocyte development and... 

Syk and ZAP-70 are early intermediates in the transduction of signals from immune receptors, including the B- and T-cell recqrtors for antigen, activatory natural killer-cell receptors, the mast cell and basophil receptor for IgE, and the widely distributed receptors for the Fc portion of IgG. Immune receptors control checkpoints in lymphocyte development and serve to integrate the responses of innate and acquired immunity. 

IFN-a was first nsed empirically in chronic hepatitis B in 1986 (Peters et al. 1986). The effect of hnman recombinant IFN-a on lymphocyte proliferation and differentiation was stndied in 18 patients with chronic hepatitis B. Inhibition of immnnoglob-nlin synthesis was observed, and the anthors postnlated that the immnnomodnlatory effect of IFN-a could be important in the therapentic response of chronic hepatitis B (Peters et al. 1986). The first study to evaluate the antiviral efficacy of IFN-a involved nine patients, who received different doses administered three times a week for two weeks. Two of them entered snstained remission, with nndetectable HBV DNA, loss of HBeAg, and ALT normalization (Dooley et al. 1986). Two forms of IFN-a have been used in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B, namely standard and pegylated IFN-a. 

Adenosine deaminase deficiency is associated with an immunodeficiency disease in which both thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) and bone marrow-derived lymphocytes (B cells) are sparse and dysfunctional. Purine nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency is associated with a severe deficiency of T cells but apparently normal B cell function. Immune dysfunctions appear to result from accumulation of dGTP and dATP, which inhibit ribonucleotide reductase and thereby deplete cells of DNA precursors. 

The ideal of any vaccine is to provide life-long protection to the individual against disease. Immunological memory (Chapter 14) depends upon the survival of cloned populations of small B and T lymphocytes (memory cells). These small lymphocytes have a lifespan in the body of ca. 15-20 years. Thus, if the immune system is not boosted, either by natural exposure to the organism or by re-immunization, then immunity gained in childhood will be attenuated or lost completely by the age of 30. Those vaccines which provide only poor protection against disease have proportionately reduced time-spans of effectiveness. Yellow fever vaccination, which is highly effective, must therefore be repeated at 10-year intervals, whilst typhoid vaccines are only effective for 1-3 years. Whether or not immunization in childhood is boosted at adolescence or in adult life depends on the relative risks associated with the infection as a function of age. 

Alemtuzumab is the antibody to the CD52 receptor present on B and T lymphocytes. The pharmacokinetics of alemtuzumab demonstrate a terminal half-life of 7 days. Alemtuzumab has shown clinical activity in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Severe and prolonged (6 months) immunosuppression may result, which necessitates prophylaxis with cotrimox-azole and antivirals to prevent opportunistic infections. 

Hematopoiesis is defined as the development and maturation of blood cells and their precursors. In utero, hematopoiesis may occur in the liver, spleen, and bone marrow. However, after birth, it occurs exclusively in the bone marrow. All blood cells are generated from a common hematopoietic precursor, or stem cell. These stem cells are self-renewing and pluripotent and thus are able to commit to any one of the different lines of maturation that give rise to platelet-producing megakaryocytes, lymphoid, erythroid, and myeloid cells. The myeloid cell line produces monocytes, basophils, neutrophils, and eosinophils, whereas the lymphoid stem cell differentiates to form circulating B and T lymphocytes. In contrast to the ordered development of normal cells, the development of leukemia seems to represent an arrest in differentiation at an early phase in the continuum of stem cell to mature cell.1... 

Reif K, Okkenhaug K, Sasaki T, Penninger JM, Vanhaesebroeck B, Cyster JG. Cutting edge differential roles for phosphoinositide 3-kinases, pllOgamma and pllOdelta, in lymphocyte chemotaxis and homing. J Immunol 2004 173(4) 2236-2240. 

Tilton B, Ho L, Oberlin E, et al. Signal transduction by CXC chemokine receptor 4. Stromal cell-derived factor 1 stimulates prolonged protein kinase B and extracellular signal-regulated kinase 2 activation in T lymphocytes. J Exp Med 2000 192(3) 313-324. 

In addition to the classical stress hormones already reviewed, several other hormones are augmented in response to stress. Stress-induced prolactin release is one of the most frequently studied examples. There is no doubt about the causal relationship between stress and increased pituitary prolactin release, but the biological meaning is much less clear (G2). This phylogenetically old hormone has been shown to have more than 85 different functions in all vertebrate species. However, besides its role in the induction of maternal lactogenesis, the physiological importance of prolactin is at present not fully established. Experimental and clinical evidence supports the view that prolactin is also an immunoregulating hormone (M44, R18). Prolactin receptors are present on human T and B lymphocytes (R18), and T lymphocytes depend on prolactin for maintenance of immunocompetence (B19). In addition, it has been shown that prolactin is able to influence the devel-... 

Eva, C., Ferrero, P., Rocca, P., Funaro, A., Bergamasco, B., Ravizza, L. and Genazzani, E. (1989) [3H] A-methylscopolamine binding to muscarinic receptors in human peripheral blood lymphocytes characterization, localization on T-lymphocyte subsets and age-dependent changes. Neuropharmacology 28, 719-726. 

Vallance, B.A., Croitoru, K. and Collins, S.M. (1998) T lymphocyte dependent and independent smooth muscle dysfunction in the T. spiralis infected mouse. American Journal of Physiology 275, G1157-G1165. 

Vermillion, D.L., Ernst, P.B. and Collins, S.M. (1991) T-lymphocyte modulation of intestinal muscle function in the Trichinella-infected rat. Gastroenterology 101, 31-38. 

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