If you want to learn about surgeries to treat breast cancer, this is a place to start. We’ll explain surgeries such as mastectomy, lumpectomy, lymph node biopsy, and lymph node removal. For most ...

Afterward, the cells are looked at and one can determine if the lymph nodes are just reactive or affected by cancer. Reactive lymph nodes are simply swollen because of underlying infection or ...

A C-reactive protein test (CRP) is a blood test that detects general inflammation in the body. CRP, which is produced by the liver, plays an important role in the immune system. Levels increase when ...

Introduction A high ratio of monocytes to lymphocytes (ML ratio) has been associated with tuberculosis ... Patients with pulmonary TB had higher ML ratio (0.56, 0.44–0.63) compared to those with lymph ...

Monocytes and macrophages are myeloid cells that have important innate immune functions. Macrophages reside in tissues and respond to infection by producing inflammatory mediators and engulfing ...

RxJava – Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.

The migratory DCs traffic from tissues to lymph nodes, where they mature ... The important messages to take from these studies are that monocyte-derived DCs represent only one of the several ...

1 Department of Orthopedics, Orthopaedic Research Institute, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China 2 Department of Operating Room, West China Hospital, Sichuan University/Nursing Key ...

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