Sentences with phrase «eosinophils when»

Your veterinarian diagnoses eosinophilic keratitis by staining a preparation of the cat's corneal cells and finding large numbers of eosinophils when the preparation is examined under a microscope.

5) Basophils — Fluctuations in basophils outside of the normal reference range may point to a parasitic or allergic response, but I find that they are very often within the normal range; and typically look to eosinophils when I suspect a parasitic or allergic response.

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Nor was it possible to attract T cells into the tumor when the researchers transplanted non-activated eosinophils, which do not produce attractants, into the mice.

In 1995, a group reported that when GATA - 1 was added to or removed from avian monocyte precursors, it could turn them into erythrocytes, megakaryocytes, and eosinophils (Kulessa et al., 1995).

The eosinophil component of infiltrates was very prominent in animals vaccinated with the experimental vaccine preparations when compared to animals mock - vaccinated using PBS, or those exposed earlier to live virus (figure 6); few to no eosinophils were seen in those lung sections.

However, many cats with heartworms do not have high eosinophil or basophil counts and when they do, there are many other causes.

Approximately 30 % of infected cats have elevated eosinophil counts, although this depends on the phase of the disease when the cat is tested (FIGURE 4).

Eosinophils are a type of white blood cell which occur in higher numbers when heartworm for cats is present, but can also indicate the presence of other parasites besides cat heartworm.

During the initial inflammatory phase and when adult worms are dying, the eosinophil count can be higher than during the state between these 2 phases of infection.2

When the problem is resistant, oral megestrol (Megace ®) can be effective - as it is in the other eosinophil - related diseases of cats.

Eosinophils are a type of white blood cells that occur in increased numbers when certain parasites are present.

That is just fine when the foreign substance is a parasite; but when it was summoned due to an IgE that was mistakenly produced against, say, pollen, a food protein, flea saliva, etc.; the chemicals that the eosinophil releases cause damage to the pet's own surrounding tissues.

However, when biopsies of the affected paw (s) are examined, plasma cells, (another cell of your cat's immune system) rather than eosinophils are found in excess.

When a mast cell «believes» that it has recognized a foreign invader, something that does not belong in the pet's body and to which prior antibodies (IgE) were produced, it releases chemicals designed to alert nearby eosinophils and summon more of them.