How to Use B cell in a Sentence
B cell
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The adaptive immune system includes a type of white blood cell, called a B cell, which patrols the body looking for bad guys.
—Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Andrea Kane, CNN, 2 Aug. 2020
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There are billions of B cells in the body; Immusoft uses only a portion.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2023
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Raskin himself was diagnosed with diffuse large B cell lymphoma late last year.
—Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2023
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This is a monoclonal antibody treatment that works by depleting the blood’s B cells.
—Markham Heid, TIME, 27 Dec. 2023
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Anderson had a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and was hospitalized earlier this week in Las Vegas to treat his diffuse large B cell lymphoma.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2022
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My research investigates how B cells are able to slip past the checkpoints the immune system has in place to guard against autoreactivity.
—Aimee Pugh Bernard, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2023
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His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his longtime publicist, Glenn Schwartz, who said the cause was complications of diffuse large B cell lymphoma, a form of blood cancer.
—New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022
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An IgG B cell is the one that can produce broadly neutralizing antibodies.
—David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021
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Patients bear a burden, too: Training their B cells to attack their tumors requires an onerous depletion process before their cells can be taken out of their bodies.
—Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 6 Sep. 2023
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And, while the current booster also spurred responses that were specific only to the old virus, the omicron booster didn't seem to spur any omicron-specific B cell responses.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2022
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He was diagnosed with diffuse large B cell lymphoma in December and started outpatient chemo-immunotherapy on the last day of 2022 — the second anniversary of his son’s death.
—Sydney Page, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
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Drugs like rituximab, which is also used in oncology and delivered by infusion, attack and kill certain immune cells, called CD20+ B cells.
—Isabella Cueto, STAT, 20 Dec. 2023
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These cells assist B cells to make antibodies, activate the microbe killing capacity of specialist cells and recruit other immune cells to infected parts of the body.
—Georgia Day, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2023
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Still, there is more to immunity than antibodies, produced by B cells in response to infection and vaccination.
—Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 25 Sep. 2023
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The treatment consisted of two monoclonal antibodies—meaning each was produced by making identical copies, or clones, of an antibody gene in a single B cell.
—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 2 Oct. 2020
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Her research primarily focuses on the activity of B cells, which are the immune system cells responsible for making antibodies.
—Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 28 Mar. 2023
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But research has found memory B cell levels are, on average, higher in people with hybrid immunity compared with natural infection or vaccination alone.
—NBC News, 13 Sep. 2021
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