Lymphocyte

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Lymphocytes are a type of white blood cell (or "leukocyte"). They serve to help an organism combat infections. Lymphocytes are also known as lymph cells, lymphocysts, and lympholeukocytes.

The two main categories of lymphocytes are B cells (or "B lymphocytes") and T cells (or "T lymphocytes"). B cells are for humoral mediated immune response and T cells are for cell mediated immune response. B cells are responsible for manufacturing antibodies, whereas T cells secrete a wide variety of cytokines.


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