MARCOing monocytes for elimination
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Lester Kobzik1, Filip K Swirski
1Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Science Translational Medicine
|January 17, 2014
Abstract:
Eliminating inflammatory monocytes using microparticles that bind to the MARCO receptor represents a promising strategy to reduce inflammation and injury (Getts et al., this issue).
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