The mannose receptor is a pattern recogn
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Philip D Stahl; R Alan B Ezekowitz
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Article
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1998
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The mannose receptor recognizes the patterns of carbohydrates that decorate the surfaces and cell walls of infectious agents. This macrophage and dendritic cell pattern-recognition receptor mediates endocytosis and phagocytosis. The mannose receptor is the prototype of a new family of multilectin re