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T lymphocyte

Definition

noun, plural: T lymphocytes

A type of lymphocyte that functions in cell-mediated immunity, and is distinguished from other types of lymphocytes by the presence of special receptor (T cell receptor) on the cell surface.


Supplement

The T in T lymphocyte stands for thymus. The thymus is the bodily organ where T lymphocytes mature.

The different types of T lymphocytes are:


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Reading Blood under a microscope

1) correct 2) just several red blood cells aggregated 3) probably some lymphocyte or something like that

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CFSE proliferation assay

Dear Biohazard, First of all I got 2 separate populations (2 peaks) in lymphocyte population when stained thawed PBMCs without incubation of cells (I used 5 mM stock solution for 1 million cells and incubate for 10 min according protocol C34554, Molecular Probes ...

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CFSE proliferation assay

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Mitogenesis assay?

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Re: How's red blood cells look like under the microscope?

... very easy, all you need is some xylene, ethanol and H and E.. Once you have stained your sample, WBC are bigger and nucleated. The picture shows a lymphocyte and what looks like a monocyte in the lower half of the screen.

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