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Article: WHITE BLOOD CELLS 'EAT' AND GAS BACTERIA
The Hindustan Times;  December 8, 2008 ;     459 words ... ... IANS) Poisonous gas used as a potent weapon during World War 1, also helps the body fight invading bacteria and controlling ... demonstrated that our bacteria-fighting foot soldiers, or white blood cells (WBCs), actually use the equivalent of chlorine bleach ...

Article: In-Flight Transfusion of Packed Red Blood Cells on ...
Military Medicine;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... that could be credited with the saving of countless lives in World War II and in the Korean War.1 The first step in the treatment ... the local policy of transporting (group 0+) packed red blood cells for certain medical evacuation missions. These missions were ...

Article: Lost for 60 years, American reporter's censored stories about ...
AP Worldstream;  June 19, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... suffered from a dangerously high fever, a drop in white and red blood cells, swelling in the throat, sores, vomiting, diarrhea, internal ... also covered the French Indochina war in Southeast Asia and World War II in Europe, and filed stories from the Middle East, Africa ...

Complete blood count test (CBC).(test to measure different type of ...
Clinical Reference Systems;  May 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... a complete blood count checks the blood cells themselves. It measures the numbers of different types of blood cells, their sizes, and their appearance ... main components of blood: * Red blood cells (also called erythrocytes or RBCs ...

Article: Blood cells traced to a common ancestor. (the cell ...
Science News;  November 9, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... as a fount replenishing red and white blood cells throughout a person's life. The pluripotent ... the family tree of more specialized blood cells. To track down the pluripotent cell ... of each specific blood cell type. Blood cells that perform different jobs - such as ...

Article: Selenium Stimulates in vitro Production in Adult Blood ...
Immunotherapy Weekly;  September 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... production in cord blood and adult blood cells in vitro, but inhibits the immune ... proteins' production in cord blood cells. "We compared the production ... vitro stimulated cord and adult blood cells." The researchers added Na ...

Article: Touching research: How white blood cells navigate.
Blood Weekly;  November 4, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... bodies, where just the right touch among blood cells can mean the difference between good ... diabetes. The power of touch among blood cells is the focus of a team of biomedical ... do mechanical forces govern our white blood cells and assure that they protect our bodies ...