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  • Thumbnail for Eukaryote
    Eukaryote (redirect from Eukaryotic cells)
    -⁠əts) constitute the domain of Eukarya or Eukaryota, organisms whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus. All animals, plants, fungi, and many unicellular...
    61 KB (6,087 words) - 12:10, 31 August 2024
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    HIV infects vital cells in the human immune system, such as helper T cells (specifically CD4+ T cells), macrophages, and dendritic cells. HIV infection leads...
    124 KB (14,119 words) - 18:13, 3 September 2024
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    abundant type of granulocytes and make up 40% to 70% of all white blood cells in humans. They form an essential part of the innate immune system, with...
    53 KB (5,696 words) - 02:58, 31 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sickle cell disease
    abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin found in red blood cells. This leads to a rigid, sickle-like shape under certain circumstances. Problems...
    141 KB (15,222 words) - 11:55, 12 August 2024
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    (October 2019). "The role of smooth muscle cells in plaque stability: Therapeutic targeting potential". British Journal of Pharmacology. 176 (19): 3741–3753...
    100 KB (11,155 words) - 18:45, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Epstein–Barr virus
    consequence, EBV made from B cells are more infectious to epithelial cells, and EBV made from epithelial cells are more infectious to B cells. Viruses lacking the...
    62 KB (6,398 words) - 04:13, 4 September 2024
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    response of body tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants. The five cardinal signs are heat, pain, redness, swelling...
    96 KB (9,537 words) - 05:17, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Immune system
    variety of pathogens, from viruses to parasitic worms, as well as cancer cells and objects such as wood splinters, distinguishing them from the organism's...
    118 KB (13,494 words) - 16:15, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antibody
    immune response, B cells can progressively differentiate into antibody-secreting cells or into memory B cells. Antibody-secreting cells comprise plasmablasts...
    119 KB (13,400 words) - 17:29, 29 August 2024
  • effective for some cancers. Immune effector cells such as lymphocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells, natural killer cells, and cytotoxic T lymphocytes work together...
    59 KB (6,128 words) - 05:06, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Virus
    submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to...
    155 KB (18,249 words) - 19:54, 24 August 2024
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    Bacteria (redirect from Bacteria cells)
    Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body". PLOS Biology. 14 (8): e1002533. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002533. ISSN 1545-7885. PMC 4991899...
    143 KB (15,531 words) - 19:34, 31 July 2024
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    Macrophage (category Human cells)
    such as cancer cells, microbes, cellular debris, and foreign substances, which do not have proteins that are specific to healthy body cells on their surface...
    92 KB (10,131 words) - 14:36, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Apoptosis
    billion cells each day due to apoptosis. For the average human child between 8 and 14 years old, each day the approximate loss is 20 to 30 billion cells. In...
    91 KB (10,659 words) - 18:24, 25 August 2024
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    the direct extension and penetration by cancer cells into neighboring tissues. Cancer occurs after cells are genetically altered to proliferate rapidly...
    42 KB (4,986 words) - 14:19, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bone marrow
    haematopoiesis). It is composed of hematopoietic cells, marrow adipose tissue, and supportive stromal cells. In adult humans, bone marrow is primarily located...
    34 KB (3,634 words) - 08:49, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Multiple myeloma
    known as plasma cell myeloma and simply myeloma, is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of white blood cell that normally produces antibodies. Often, no...
    131 KB (13,506 words) - 14:36, 4 September 2024
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    Epidermis (redirect from Epidermal cells)
    flattened cells that overlie a base layer (stratum basale) composed of columnar cells arranged perpendicularly. The layers of cells develop from stem cells in...
    28 KB (3,071 words) - 17:12, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Insulin
    lɪn/, from Latin insula, 'island') is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets encoded in humans by the insulin (INS) gene. It...
    121 KB (13,799 words) - 18:32, 22 August 2024
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    Debris Accumulates on Hematopoietic Cells and Promotes Disease in Murine and Human Systemic Lupus Erythematosus". Journal of Immunology. 196 (10): 4030–4039...
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