How to Use B cell in a Sentence

B cell

noun

• 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
• There are billions of B cells in the body; Immusoft uses only a portion.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2023
• Raskin himself was diagnosed with diffuse large B cell lymphoma late last year.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2023
• This is a monoclonal antibody treatment that works by depleting the blood’s B cells.
  — Markham Heid, TIME, 27 Dec. 2023
• First-line immune defenders, like neutrophils, need to be replaced after just four to eight hours, platelets can last a week, red blood cells up to four months, and some white blood cells, like memory B cells, live for decades.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 22 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• An IgG B cell is the one that can produce broadly neutralizing antibodies.
  — David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Lupus, like certain types of blood cancers, is caused by faulty B cells, so in theory, engineering T cells to identify and remove faulty B cells could potentially provide patients with a functional cure.
  — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 5 Apr. 2024
• The immune cells are expected to operate like an orchestra conductor for the immune system, coordinating a response by sending instructions to B cells and scaling up other facets of an assault on HIV.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2024
• And Nath notes that rituximab, a drug that depletes antibody-producing B cells, wasn’t effective in a study of myalgic encephalomyelitis–chronic fatigue syndrome—another chronic illness thought to arise after an infection.
  — Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 21 June 2024
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024