Neutrophils are one of the most
common types of immune cells and known to engulf microorganisms, but they are not normally associated with peripheral nerve damage, such as that caused by diabetes or trauma.
Not exact matches
The most
common type of skin lymphoma is caused by the fact that specific
immune cells — CD4 - T - lymphocyttes — turn into cancer
cells.
Antibodies derived from a
type of immune cell found in unusually high numbers in HIV - infected individuals with chronically uncontrolled virus levels are less effective at neutralizing HIV than antibodies derived from a different
type of immune cell more
common in people without HIV, scientists report.
Researchers have identified a group
of immune system genes that may play a role in how long people can live after developing a
common type of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme, a tumor
of the glial
cells in the brain.
Depending on characteristics such as how many tumor
cells, blood vessel
cells, and
immune cells are touching each other, the tumor microenvironment can nearly triple the chance that a
common type of breast cancer (estrogen - receptor positive / HER2 negative) that has reached the lymph nodes will also metastasize, Condeelis and colleagues showed in a 2014 study
of 3,760 patients.
Human genetic studies strongly point to apolipoprotein E (APOE) and microglia (the
immune cells of the brain) as, respectively, the most important gene and
cell type in the chain
of events leading to Alzheimer's disease (AD), a
common disorder in the elderly in which the brain is damaged and memories falter.
The
common identifying factor in most autoimmune diseases is a destructive processes called inflammation which will eventually cause the destruction
of cells and tissues specific to the
type of auto -
immune disease he person has.