Absolute monocytes are a measurement of a particular type of white blood cell. Learn what they do and what a high or low measurement means.

The accrual of cholesterol-laden macrophages in the atherosclerotic plaque is a critical event that precedes plaque rupture. The guidance molecule netrin-1 mediates this accrual in a mouse model of ...

In recent decades, immunotherapy has transformed cancer treatment, offering effective options for diseases once considered uncurable, such as melanoma, lung, and bladder cancers. What began as ...

Drotrecogin alfa (activated), or recombinant human activated protein C, has antithrombotic, antiinflammatory, and profibrinolytic properties. In a previous study, drotrecogin alfa activated produce ...

Do activated monocytes infiltrate the CNS? Parabiosis experiments suggest otherwise, and Appel thinks this is unlikely early in disease. Instead, he points at T cells. They travel back and forth ...

Contrastingly, COVID-19 monocytes expressed less TNF than control monocytes, while no differences were observed in IL-10 levels.

The new study’s findings show significant reductions in inflammatory cytokines, which are proteins that help control inflammation, and activated monocytes, which are a major type of immune cell ...

However, the levels of inflammatory biomarkers do suggest that monocytes and macrophages are unduly activated in COVID-19.

Monocytes, the white blood cells necessary to regulate immune responses, were more activated and pro-inflammatory in women with osteoarthritis, and that elevated inflammation and body mass index ...

Immunosuppression appears to reduce mortality among people with systemic sclerosis with pulmonary arterial hypertension but did not prevent the complication from occurring.