Leukocytes

My lab has frozen peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes which are contaminated by gram positive rods. These cells are extremely important and we are looking for a way to transform these cells into a B-Lymphoblastoid immortal cell line while at ...

See entire post

... Moulton HM, Iversen PL, Kerkvliet NI, Mourich DV. Arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides facilitate delivery of antisense oligomers into murine leukocytes and alter pre-mRNA splicing. J Immunol Methods. 2007 Jul 26; [Epub ahead of print] Wu RP, Youngblood DS, Hassinger JN, Lovejoy CE, Nelson ...

See entire post

... from the body. The glomerolus is responsible mainly for reabsorbtion of protien (just FYI). When someone has extended an extended illness, leukocytes can accumulate in the glomerolus, resulting in glomerolonephritis. This can be detected by dysuria, flank pain, and increased protien output ...

See entire post

... it fools the immune system into thinking its part of a healthy body. As for a vaccine I have thought of the introduction of gene therapy into leukocytes. Introducing a gene that does not code for the G4 proteins on the outer surface of the cell, thereby not allowing the virus to dock.

See entire post

... for the vaccine. HIV also infects the immune system itself, and can have a long latency periods where the virus simply hides within certain leukocytes. Thus eradicating the virus from the body once the infection has begun is very challenging (= currently impossible). I'm quite sure there ...

See entire post