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.

Yet as a new study suggests, even a single night of sleep deprivation may cause significant upheaval in the immune system, ...

In a nutshell Sleep deprivation alters immune cells, increasing inflammation even in healthy individuals. One night of poor sleep can shift immune function to resemble that of obesity-related ...

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 ...

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 ...

WE’RE all aware of the importance of sleep, but can all be guilty of not getting enough – especially when social commitments ...

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.

The researchers at the Dasman Diabetes Institute showed that our immune system is particularly sensitive to variations in ...

We often disturb our sleep due to our busy routine and don’t pay attention to it but a new study has revealed its shocking ...

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. Monocytes ...