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Homeostasis: a scavenger receptor for haemoglobin
1Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OX1 3RE, Oxford, UK. Siamon.Gordon@pathology.ox.ac.uk
Current Biology : CB
|May 30, 2001
Abstract:
Recent studies have identified a macrophage-specific receptor for the clearance of haemoglobin-haptoglobin complexes, which protects the host against the toxicity of free haemoglobin.