What do they mean in below sentence:MNCs and PMNs and whtas the roles of cytokine genes?Tq.?

whole blood, purified "MNCs" and "PMNs" were coincubated with C.albicans yeast cell for 1h.qRT-PCR ysis was carried out on these samples to quantify the levels of eight key "cytokine genes" and two TLR genes important in fungal infections.