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Neutrophils are important effector cells against protozoan extracellular parasite Entamoeba histolytica, which causes amoebic colitis and liver abscess in human beings. Apoptotic cell death of neutrophils is an important event...
Primary ciliary dyskinesia is characterized by chronic upper and lower respiratory infections which are caused by the grossly impaired ciliary transport. Since the cilia and neutrophils both utilize microtubular system...
Behcet's disease is recognized as a systemic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology. The disease has a chronic course with periodic exacerbations and progressive deterioration. Previous reports have shown at least...
Human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) migrate into tissues in response to chemoattractants, yet it is not known whether this process alters the functional capabilities of the PMN. Using recombinant human...
In order to determine the extent to which specific forms of glomerulonephritis
(GN) contribute to the pool of crescentic GN, renal tissues from 17 crescentic
GN patients were examined with...
Although heparin is better known as an anticoagulant, it also has several anti-inflammatory effects. Heparin is known to inhibit neutrophil adhesion, chemotaxis and oxygen free radical production. In...
Truncated forms of gp91(phox) were expressed in E. coli in which the N-terminal hydrophobic transmembrane region was replaced with a portion of the highly soluble bacterial protein thioredoxin (TRX). TRX-gp91(phox)...