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Simultaneous Study of the Recruitment of Monocyte Subpopulations Under Flow In Vitro
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Securing mucosal borders--migrant monocytes to the rescue
1Center for Immunity and Inflammation, Department of Medicine, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07101, USA. yapgs@umdnj.edu
Cell Host & Microbe
|September 10, 2008
Abstract:
Gr1(+) "inflammatory" monocytes are emerging as key players in the innate immune response to infection and vaccination. In a recent issue of Immunity, Dunay et al. (2008) report a surprisingly crucial role for inflammatory monocytes in mucosal resistance to the parasitic agent Toxoplasma gondii.
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