Mechanisms for eosinophilic and neutrophilic leucocytoses.
Thymus-deprived mice are unable to react with eosinophilia to an appropriate stimulus, but their ability to mount a neutrophil leucocytosis in response to pyogenic infection is unimpaired. It appears that thymus-processed lymphocytes are required for induction of eosinophil but not of neutrophil leucocytosis.
D000818:Animals; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000209:etiology*; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D007964:Leukocytosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D009504:Neutrophils; D011704:Pyelonephritis / Q000473:pathology; D013934:Thymectomy; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000502:physiology; D014235:Trichinellosis / Q000473:pathology