High monocytes can also be a side effect of medication. Monocytes are white blood cells, part of the immune system that helps fight infections and diseases. There are no symptoms of high monocytes.

Hours spent tossing and turning, unsure of what to do with obsessive thoughts, unable to close your eyes: sleepless nights ...

Monocytes and macrophages are myeloid cells that have important innate immune functions. Macrophages reside in tissues and respond to infection by producing inflammatory mediators and engulfing ...

For the new study, researchers from the Dasman Diabetes Institute in Kuwait sought to understand the influence of sleep deprivation on circulating immune cells, such as monocytes, and its association ...

Introduction of the variants into healthy cells abolished CCR2 protein expression, and the patients’ own monocytes lacked the receptor. Neehus’s collaborators next set up an in vitro cell migration ...

New research reveals insight into the impact sleep quality has on a person's immune system, and how it could be linked to the ...

It's also known that poor health outcomes can be driven by chronic inflammation but the direct influence of sleep on circulating immune cells, such as monocytes, is not as well understood.

Instead, the Ab–virus complex attaches to receptors called Fcγ receptors (FcγR) on circulating monocytes. The antibodies help the virus infect monocytes more efficiently. The outcome is an ...

Researchers at the Friedrich Loeffler Institute and the University of Greifswald in Germany have gained new insights into how the African swine fever (ASF) virus infiltrates the immune system of ...

It’s also known that poor health outcomes can be driven by chronic inflammation but the direct influence of sleep on circulating immune cells, such as monocytes, is not as well understood.