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CD Cell Markers
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Clusters of differentiation (CDs) are a system for identifying cellular surface markers, a number of which define lymphocyte subsets (see , Lymphocytes). The system and its nomenclature were ...
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Chemokines
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Chemokines comprise a family of about 40 low-molecular-weight cytokines (see , Cytokines) with important roles in the immune system, as well as functions beyond it. The name chemokine, a contraction ...
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Complement
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
It is estimated that one C3b deposited on an organ- ism can become four million in about 4 min. M. K. Liszewski and J. P. Atkinson(p922) The term complement refers to a group of serum proteins ...
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Cytokines
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
… some viruses subvert the immune response by producing homologs of mammalian cytokines or their receptors. J. J. Oppenheim and M. Feldmann(p7) Cytokines are proteins or glycoproteins produced after ...
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HLA/Major Histocompatibility Complex
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
UPDATE: In April 2010, the WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System introduced a modification of the nomenclature outlined in the manual; the new nomenclature introduces delimiters in ...
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Immunoglobulins
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
… the antibody in serum is a mixture of perhaps 100 million slightly different types of molecule… J. H. L. Playfair and B. M. Chain(p38) Plasma cells can release up to 2000 antibody mole- cules per ...
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Lymphocytes
Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
The normal adult human body contains on the or- der of a trillion (1012) lymphocytes.… Together, the thymus and marrow produce approximately 109 mature lymphocytes each day, which are then released ...
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