Year: 2018

White blood cells (also known as leukocytes) play a very important role in our body’s immunity. The movement of cells to damaged and diseased tissue is called leukocyte ‘recruitment’.  It is a key step in the inflammatory process. In our first article we explained how when white blood cells are alerted or activated they become…

Sticky cells are white blood cells (wbc’s) which become activated and deployed to a part of our body where healing is needed. Wbc’s are activated to respond to invasive agents, harmful stimuli or damaged body tissue. In other words, our inbuilt mode of crisis management is largely run by our white blood cells. They are…