Collectins: sentinels of innate immunity
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Garima Gupta; Avadhesha Surolia
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Collectins, present in plasma and on mucosal surfaces, are humoral molecules of the innate immune system. They were discovered a hundred years ago in 1906 as the first association of an animal lectin with the immune system. They are a family of calciumβdependent lectins that recognize p