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I don't know about culturing the cells and what that all means but Lymphocytes are white blood cells. There different types of white blood cells and lymphs are one type. The other types are granulocytes (aka neutrophils), monocytes, basophils and eosinophils. All of these make up the WBC in CBC.
Only the lymph can reproduce themselves. They are made in the bone marrow from stem cell but they can also divide to make more of themselves once they have left the BM. The other white cells come from stem cells also but they do not have the ability to reproduce. This is also true for platelets and red cells.
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Marlene, wife to John DX w/SAA April 2002, Stable partial remission; Treated with High Dose Cytoxan, Johns Hopkins, June 2002. Final phlebotomy 11/2016. As of July 2021 HGB 12.0, WBC 4.70/ANC 3.85, Plts 110K.
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