white blood cells
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Mantle cell lymphoma is rare and affects white blood cells called B lymphocytes.
From BBC
When you get injured, your immune system sends certain white blood cells to calm pain-sensing neurons and inflammation.
Longer-term exposure increases the risk of cancers of the white blood cells, such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, as well as breast cancer.
From Los Angeles Times
It works by preventing white blood cells from attacking foreign material in the body.
From Science Daily
It is given as a nasal spray and leaves white blood cells in our lungs – called macrophages – on "amber alert" and ready to jump into action no matter what infection tries to get in.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
