Multiple myeloma is preceded by a blood disorder called monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) in which abnormal
plasma cells produce many copies of an antibody protein.
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
** The immunological defense system of the soft mucosa, which may
produce antibacterial and antiviral proteins such as lysozyme, also found in mothers milk, and
plasma cells, which secrete immunoglobulin antibodies.
In multiple myeloma, normal
plasma cells transform into malignant myeloma
cells and
produce large quantities of toxic abnormal immunoglobulin called monoclonal protein that can damage multiple organs.
Plasma cells, for example,
produce antibodies that ward off bacteria and viruses.
This pathway is crucial for the function and survival of secretory
cells such as antibody -
producing plasma cells.
Given their high rates of protein synthesis, antibody -
producing plasma cells display particularly high levels of metabolic activity.
This treatment resistance may be caused by certain anti-NMDA receptor antibody -
producing plasma cells that remain inaccessible to current immunotherapies.
It specifically affects antibody -
producing white blood
cells found in the bone marrow, called
plasma cells.
Multiple myeloma is a rare, malignant
plasma cell cancer affecting the bone marrow and other blood
producing organs.
Antibodies are
produced by certain
cells in your cat's blood (
plasma cells, B -
cells).
An antibody is Y shaped protein that is
produced by an immune
cell called a
plasma cell in response to invasion by a a microbe (virus or bacteria).
In this form, lymphocytes (white blood
cells) and
plasma cells (
cells that
produce antibody) are the primary types of inflammatory
cells present in the mucosa.
The ones that interest veterinarians most are usually the Gamma globulins (IgG) that are
produced by your pet's lymphocytes and
plasma cells and IgE, the globulin related to allergy.
Lymphocytes and
plasma cells (specialized types of white blood
cells)
produce an immune response through production of antibodies.