Healthy plasma cells produce antibodies that fight infection in the body, but myeloma cells produce high levels of abnormal antibodies that, when the cancer cells accumulate, they crowd out production of other important blood cells, both red and white.
Not exact matches
But in multiple myeloma,
plasma cells grow out of control in the bone marrow, crowding out
healthy cells.
Allender and former veterinary student Lauren Kane demonstrated, however, that administering treatments via a fine spray allows therapeutic levels of terbinafine, an antifungal agent that kills O. ophiodiicola in
cell culture, to get into
healthy snakes» blood
plasma.
The extracellular leaflet of the
plasma membrane is not characterized by unique molecular targets but by overexpressed antigens that are relatively down regulated in
healthy cells.
When
plasma cells become malignant, they affect
healthy blood
cell production, which weakens the immune system.
Analysis of microbial sequences in
plasma cell - free DNA for early - onset breast cancer patients and
healthy females — Yu - Feng Huang — BMC Medical Genomics
The Clinical Core of the Cleveland Alcohol Center can provide CAC investigators to access to de-identified biological samples (tissue biopsy,
plasma / serum, urine, DNA and peripheral blood mononuclear
cells (PBMCs) from patients with different stages of alcoholic liver disease, as well as
healthy control subjects.
We therefore conducted a cross-sectional analysis to investigate the relations between magnesium intake and
plasma concentrations of inflammatory and endothelial biomarkers, including CRP, IL - 6, soluble TNF - α receptor 2 (sTNF - R2), E-selectin, soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (sICAM - 1), and soluble vascular
cell adhesion molecule 1 (sVCAM - 1) in apparently
healthy women.