...Thomas H. Price In order to evaluate the validity of 3 H-diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP) as a label for neutrophil kinetic studies, the blood and skin chamber kinetics of autologous neutrophils doubly labeled with 3 H-DFP and 32 P-DFP were determined in 6 normal subjects. Blood disappearance time...

...Bola O.A. Osifo; F.A. Lukanmbi; A. Adeyokunnu The serum cobalamin, serum folate, erythrocyte folate concentrations and total leucocyte and neutrophil counts have been studied in sickle cell children (with HbSS) during the steady state. There was a significant reduction in serum cobalamin...

...Kasim Omar Ardati; Koharik Minas Bajakian; Khaled Saeed Tabbara The bactericidal activity of neutrophils depends primarily on free oxygen radicals released by the activation of NADPH oxidase when neutrophils are stimulated by microorganisms. Severe glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD...

...Takashi Miyoshi; Kouhei Yamashita; Tatsuharu Ohno; Taisuke Izumi; Akifumi Takaori-Kondo; Masataka Sasada; Takashi Uchiyama Sweet syndrome is a multisystem inflammatory disorder characterized by acute fever, as well as painful erythematous plaques infiltrated with mature neutrophils in the absence...

...Ge Rile; Yutaka Yatomi; Toshiro Takafuta; Yukio Ozaki In this study, we examined the metabolism of [ 3 H]N-hexanoylsphingosine [C 6 -ceramide (Cer)] in neutrophils, erythrocytes, platelets and mononuclear cells. [ 3 H]C 6 -Cer, exogenously added and incorporated into the inside of the cell...