Neutrophil vs Myeloperoxidase - What's the difference?
neutrophil | myeloperoxidase |
(biology, medicine) Of a cell: being more easily or more fully stained by neutral dyes than by acidic or alkaline (basic) ones.
(biology, medicine) Such a cell, especially a white blood cell.
*2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 89:
*:One litre of human blood contains about five billion neutrophils (around half of all white blood cells).
(biochemistry) A peroxidase enzyme most abundantly present in neutrophil granulocytes, responsible for the greenish colour of pus and mucus.