• It induces the survival, proliferation, and differentiation of neutrophilic granulocyte precursor cells and functionally activates mature blood neutrophils. (uchicago.edu)
  • Human Granulocyte-Colony-Stimulating Factor (G-CSF), a 20 kDa glycoprotein containing internal disulfide bonds, induces the survival, proliferation, and differentiation of neutrophilic granulocyte precursor cells and functionally activates mature blood neutrophils. (sydlabs.com)
  • The granulocyte network includes 3 main components: neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils. (medscape.com)
  • Expression of high levels of immune cells including neutrophils has been associated with detrimental outcome in several solid tumors and new strategies to decrease their presence and activity are currently under clinical development. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Examples for such strategies include inhibition of CXCR1 and CXCR2 to decrease migration of neutrophils to tumoral areas or the inhibition of granulocyte colony stimulating factor to decrease the amount of neutrophils which has shown efficacy in preclinical models. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Neutrophilic granulocytes (neutrophils) account for 50-70% of all leukocytes and depend on a sequential process of maturation in the bone marrow that provokes the conversion of myeloblasts to segmented neutrophils [ 7 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Neutrophil granulocytes , generally referred to as neutrophils , are the most abundant type of white blood cells in humans and form an integral part of the immune system . (bionity.com)
  • Neutrophils are much more numerous than the longer-lived monocyte /macrophages. (bionity.com)
  • Being highly motile, neutrophils quickly congregate at a focus of infection , attracted by cytokines expressed by activated endothelium , mast cells and macrophages . (bionity.com)
  • These fractions consisted of either mononuclear cells (MO-MDSCs), resembling inflammatory monocytes, or low-density polymorphonuclear cells (PMN-MDSCs), akin to immature neutrophils. (ashpublications.org)
  • The peripheral leukocyte count is determined by several mechanisms, including (1) the size of precursor and storage pool of myeloid and lymphoid cells, (2) the rate of release of the cells from the storage pool in the bone marrow, (3) the rate of marginating cells out of blood vessels into the tissues, and (4) the rate of consumption of the cells in the tissues (ie, cell loss). (medscape.com)
  • in turn, each of these categories is classified as either acute or chronic, depending on the proportion of morphologically and immunophenotypically immature precursors (blasts) in the bone marrow or peripheral blood. (medilib.ir)
  • The paradox of proliferative bone marrow together with peripheral blood cytopenias in MDS may be explained by increased intramedullary myeloid precursor cell apoptosis [ 6 ]. (medilib.ir)
  • Planned Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor Adversely Impacts Survival after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Performed with Thymoglobulin for Myeloid Malignancy. (uchicago.edu)
  • Open-Label Phase II Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Study of Romyelocel-L Myeloid Progenitor Cells to Reduce Infection During Induction Chemotherapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia. (uchicago.edu)
  • Myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia after receipt of granulocyte colony-stimulating factors in older patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. (uchicago.edu)
  • The induction of CD11b + Gr-1 + myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) is an important immune-evading mechanism used by tumors. (ashpublications.org)
  • Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), unlike MDS, usually exhibit terminal myeloid cell expansion in the peripheral blood [ 7 ]. (medilib.ir)
  • MPNs include polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), primary myelofibrosis, chronic neutrophilic leukemia, and other less well defined entities such as chronic eosinophilic leukemia, not otherwise categorized. (medilib.ir)
  • Clonal studies in the chronic myeloid disorders - Genetic and enzyme studies based upon X-chromosome inactivation patterns have revealed a multipotent progenitor cell origin for the neoplastic clone in both MDS [ 8 ] and MPN [ 9 ]. (medilib.ir)
  • Binding of complement to a foreign substance, or antigen, amplifies and augments the body's innate immune system by means of its role as an opsonin (a factor that enhances phagocytosis of unwanted particles) and as a chemoattractant (a factor that recruits cells to areas of inflammation). (medscape.com)
  • They confer resistance against many different viruses, inhibit proliferation of normal and malignant cells, impede multiplication of intracellular parasites, enhance macrophage and granulocyte phagocytosis, augment natural killer cell activity, and show several other immunomodulatory functions. (lookformedical.com)
  • Monocytes circulate, whereas macrophages are fixed in lymphoid and mucosal tissues. (medscape.com)
  • With the eosinophil and the basophil , they form the class of polymorphonuclear cells (PMNs), named for the nucleus 's characteristic multilobulated shape (as compared to lymphocytes and monocytes , the other types of white cells). (bionity.com)
  • The generation of receptors specific for antigens is a unique and complex process that generates 10 12 specific receptors for each cell type of the adaptive immune system, including T and B cells. (medscape.com)
  • Various cell types can process and present these antigens to T cells, or antigens may be soluble and bound to B-cell receptors. (medscape.com)
  • Cell surface receptors are able to detect chemical gradients of molecules such as interleukin-8 (IL-8), interferon gamma (IFN-gamma), and C5a which these cells use to direct the path of their migration. (bionity.com)
  • Whereas basophilic cellular components stain dark blue and eosinophilic components stain bright red, neutrophilic components stain a neutral pink. (bionity.com)
  • A monocyte chemoattractant protein that has activity towards a broad variety of immune cell types. (lookformedical.com)
  • Granulocytes are mobile phagocytes that travel to areas of inflammation to engulf and destroy invading microorganisms. (medscape.com)
  • In addition to antiviral activity, it activates NATURAL KILLER CELLS and B-LYMPHOCYTES , and down-regulates VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR expression through PI-3 KINASE and MAPK KINASES signaling pathways. (lookformedical.com)
  • PHOSPHORYLATION of IRF-3 causes the protein to be translocated from the CYTOPLASM to CELL NUCLEUS where it binds DNA , and activates transcription. (lookformedical.com)
  • The structure of the recombinant human G-CSF protein expressed in E. coli, such as filgrastim, differs slightly from those of the natural glycoprotein and the recombinant human G-CSF protein expressed in mammalian cells such as CHO cells. (sydlabs.com)
  • EPO-secreting tumors EPO-secreting tumors Polycythemia Vera , such as renal cell carcinoma Renal cell carcinoma Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a tumor that arises from the lining of the renal tubular system within the renal cortex. (lecturio.com)
  • G-CSF-R is a cell-surface receptor for the granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). (wikipedia.org)
  • Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor receptor has been shown to interact with Grb2, HCK and SHC1. (wikipedia.org)
  • Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) . (uchicago.edu)
  • This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor" by people in this website by year, and whether "Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor" was a major or minor topic of these publications. (uchicago.edu)
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  • Increase in short-term risk of rejection in heart transplant patients receiving granulocyte colony-stimulating factor. (uchicago.edu)
  • Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor Use after Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation: Comparison of Two Practices. (uchicago.edu)
  • Maturation depends on different stimulating factors including the granulocyte-macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and the granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), two of the most relevant growth factors that control such maturation process. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The more time such parasites spend outside a host cell , the more likely they will be destroyed by some component of the body's defenses. (bionity.com)
  • Natural-killer (NK) cells are specialized lymphocytes that have cytotoxic properties in addition to their ability to produce cytokines that assist in the orchestration of adaptive immunity. (medscape.com)
  • Proteins secreted by vertebrate cells in response to a wide variety of inducers. (lookformedical.com)
  • Non-antibody proteins secreted by inflammatory leukocytes and some non-leukocytic cells, that act as intercellular mediators. (lookformedical.com)
  • This is certainly due to its inherent autonomous growth potential of malignant cells. (medscape.com)
  • Therefore, we propose that damage to and subsequent release of mtDNA elicits a protective signalling response that enhances nDNA repair in cells and tissues, suggesting that mtDNA is a genotoxic stress sentinel. (regenerativemedicine.net)
  • The adaptive immune system consists of 2 types of lymphocytes: T cells (70-75% of the adaptive immune force) and B cells (10-20% of the adaptive immune force). (medscape.com)
  • The clonal process may develop at different progenitor cell levels in individual patients, and the clonal progenitor cell may or may not involve T and B lymphocytes [ 10 ]. (medilib.ir)
  • Cell surface glycoproteins that bind to chemokines and thus mediate the migration of pro-inflammatory molecules. (lookformedical.com)
  • They differ from classical hormones in that they are produced by a number of tissue or cell types rather than by specialized glands. (lookformedical.com)
  • NK cells are specialized effectors of the innate immune system that destroy their targets by antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity, have prominent antitumor effects, and are potent killers of virally infected cells. (medscape.com)
  • Classically, therapies have been designed against molecular alterations that drive the transformation of normal cells into tumor ones [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It has necrotizing activity against tumor cell lines and increases ability to reject tumor transplants. (lookformedical.com)
  • Specific molecular sites or structures on or in cells with which interferons react or to which they bind in order to modify the function of the cells. (lookformedical.com)
  • Neutrophil granulocytes have an average volume of 330 femtoliters (fl) and a diameter of 12-15 micrometers (µm) in peripheral blood smears . (bionity.com)
  • Thousands of copies of the circular mtDNA are present in most cell types that are packaged by TFAM into higher-order structures called nucleoids1. (regenerativemedicine.net)
  • The segmented neutrophil count increases in both vaso-occlusive crisis and in bacterial infection in patients with sickle cell disease . (medscape.com)
  • Thus, during normal hematopoiesis, there exists a cellular hierarchy headed by a stable population of pluripotent stem cells that generate lineage-specific progenitors, which differentiate into the various types of mature blood cells [ 2 ]. (medilib.ir)
  • Renal cell carcinoma is responsible for 80%-85% of all primary renal neoplasms. (lecturio.com)
  • In cultured primary fibroblasts and cancer cells, the chemotherapeutic drug doxorubicin causes mtDNA damage and release, which leads to cGAS STING dependent ISG activation. (regenerativemedicine.net)
  • Interestingly, both MO-MDSCs and PMN-MDSCs suppressed antigen-specific T-cell responses, albeit using distinct effector molecules and signaling pathways. (ashpublications.org)
  • Cell-to-cell interactions set off a cascade of events that may result in T- or B-cell activation and, ultimately, host defense. (medscape.com)