High neutrophils and low lymphocytes can mean your body is under severe stress or fighting an infection. A neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) shows how sick you are and what treatment you may need.

When looking at a CBC, the WBC is high.Then, 'Could it be an infection?' is something we often consider. Certainly, in bacterial infections, white blood cells, especially neutrophils can increase.

Neutrophils, one of the immune system warriors that were thought to be all the same, turn out to be diverse. Unfortunately, these cells are also active in autoimmune diseases. New research from Japan ...

The most common white blood cells in your body — immune cells called neutrophils — can make a protein nobody knew they were making, Stanford Medicine investigators have discovered. That unexpected ...