Sentences with phrase «abnormal blood cell production»

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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.

And according to recent studies conducted in Japan, the full ripe bananas with dark patches on their skin produce the largest quantity of TNF (Tumor Necrosis Factor), a cytokine that fights abnormal tumor cells in the body by stimulating the production of white blood cells and assisting their communication.

Leukemia is the name given to a number of cancers that affect the infection - fighting white blood cells and where there is an abnormal over production of white blood cells.

The most common reasons for anemia are reduced or abnormal red blood cell production by the bone marrow or loss or destruction of functioning red cells.

This means that abnormal blood cells can be produced or that production of normal cells can be halted due to an action of chloramphenicol on patient bone marrow.