Anatom3DB cells & plasma cells
Lymphocyti B et plasmocyti · B lymfocyty a plazmatické buňky
Lymphatic & immune
Looks like
Lymphocytes made in the bone marrow; when activated they swell into plasma cells packed with antibody-making machinery.
What it does
Make antibodies against specific germs and keep a memory of them.
Keeping it well
Vaccines train them. Myeloma is a cancer of plasma cells; bone pain, anaemia and kidney trouble together need blood tests.
Related conditions
- Acute leukaemia (AML & ALL)
- African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
- Aplastic anaemia & marrow failure
- Chronic leukaemia (CML & CLL)
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Dehydration & electrolyte disorders
- Delirium
- Dengue & mosquito-borne fevers
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Ebola virus disease
- G6PD deficiency (favism)
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Hereditary spherocytosis
- High cholesterol
- Lymphoma (Hodgkin & non-Hodgkin)
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Maternal (puerperal) sepsis
- MGUS (monoclonal gammopathy)
- MRSA and resistant staph infection
- Multiple myeloma
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Neonatal sepsis
- Neutropenic sepsis
- Postpartum haemorrhage
- Primary immunodeficiency
- Scrub typhus & rickettsial infections
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Typhoid & cholera
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Von Willebrand disease