Pentraxins as a key component of innate
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Barbara Bottazzi; Cecilia Garlanda; Giovanni Salvatori; Pascale Jeannin; Angelo
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Article
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2006
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Pentraxins are a complex superfamily of multifunctional molecules characterized by a multimeric structure. C-reactive protein and pentraxin 3 (PTX3) are prototypic molecules of the short and long pentraxin family, respectively. PTX3 is conserved in evolution and produced by innate immune cells. Evid