Immune cells are a group of cells dedicated to defending our bodies from all things “non-self”. Within the group there are members that perform different tasks and that specialize in different ...

Eosinophils are specialized pro-inflammatory white blood cells. They have a bilobed nucleus and are granulocytes, which means they contain granules within their cytoplasm. These granules contain ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with moderate to severe eosinophilic asthma, treatment with dexpramipexole depleted blood and tissue ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with advanced COPD and blood eosinophils of 100 or less had more exacerbations and reduced lung ...

Eosinophils are important effector cells in allergic diseases, but the mechanisms regulating their biological functions remain obscure. Interleukin-33 (IL-33) is a recently identified cytokine of the ...

In a subset of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), increased levels of circulating eosinophils were found in lung tissue, sputum, and blood during stable disease and ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Knopp Biosciences LLC today reported further clinical and biomarker data demonstrating that reduction in eosinophil count by oral dexpramipexole significantly correlated ...

Elevated absolute eosinophil counts and absolute basophil counts (ABC) are associated with reduced overall survival in essential thrombocythemia. In polycythemia vera, higher ABC correlates with ...

For the first time in published literature, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital and University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) researchers showed that a variety of white blood cells known as ...

The first patient was a 60-year-old woman who had received a diagnosis of eosinophilic dermatitis five years earlier. The skin disease initially manifested as erythematous, centrally ulcerated nodules ...