Bacterial and fungal infections are the main cause of morbidity and mortality in neutropenic patients. The transfusion of granulocytes to restore host defenses in severely neutropenic patients has ...

The body responds to infections by rapidly 'ramping up' production of innate immune cells. New findings indicate that distinct transcription factors regulate 'basal' and 'emergency' leukocyte ...

Researchers in Sweden have provided a comprehensive characterization of circulating granulocytes in people infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that ...

The four colony-stimulating factors (CSFs) are glycoproteins that regulate the generation and some functions of infection-protective granulocytes and macrophages. Recombinant granulocyte-CSF (G-CSF) ...

Immature granulocytes are early stage white blood cells that usually stay inside the bone marrow while they mature. If they appear in the bloodstream in unusually high numbers, it can signal that the ...

Clinical and in vitro effects of recombinant human erythropoietin in patients receiving intensive chemotherapy for small-cell lung cancer. This multicenter prospective trial randomized 230 patients to ...

A retrospective single centre study exploring the efficacy of sequential tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) in patients with hepatocellular cancer. Updated results of the phase II ALTER-H004: Anlotinib ...