A basophil is a type of white blood cell that is part of your immune system. Basophils provide frontline defense against infection and are involved in processes like inflammation and allergies ...

Basophils are types of white blood cells that play a vital role in keeping the immune system functioning. Basophil tests can help diagnose many health concerns.

A positive basophil activation test result may be a prognostic factor of pediatric chronic urticaria resolution, according to new research published in JAMA Dermatology.Because the etiology of ...

Inflammation is a crucial part of the body's defense mechanism, playing a key role in fighting infections and repairing tissue damage. Basophils, a type of immune cell that makes up less than 1% ...

By Richard P. Grant Basophil Roles Dr. David Phillips/Visuals Unlimited, Inc. The paper C. Ohnmacht et al., “Basophils orchestrate chronic allergic dermatitis and protective immunity against helminths ...

Here, the authors report the structure of omalizumab in complex with an IgE fragment and develop an approach to exchange rather than deplete IgE on human basophils to block their activation.

Importantly, as activation of the basophil with N -formyl-methionine-leucine-phenylalanine (fMLP) does not act via FcεRI cross-linking, fMLP can therefore not be used to control whether the ...

Eosinophilic patients with chronic rhinosinusitis had significantly increased basophil counts in their nasal polyps when compared with noneosinophilic patients with chronic rhinosinusitis ...

A recent study reveals the pivotal role of tristetraprolin (TTP), an RNA-binding protein, in regulating inflammatory responses in basophils, immune cells central to allergic reactions. The ...

In mice whose basophils were unable to produce IL-4, protease treatment did not cause lung inflammation, suggesting that basophil-derived IL-4 could be the main driver of protease-allergen-induced ...

(HealthDay)—Circadian variations in gene expression may contribute to temporal variations in the symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis, according to research published online Dec. 2 in Allergy.

Basophils were deemed critical in allergic response and parasite removal, but their precise role has been controversial. David Vöhringer, now at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, found that basophils are ...