Increased apoptotic neutrophils and macr
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Yi Ren; Jinling Tang; M. Y. Mok; Albert W. K. Chan; Adrian Wu; C. S. Lau
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## Objective To evaluate whether patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have a higher rate of apoptosis in and secondary necrosis of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) and macrophages compared with controls; to compare the rate of macrophage phagocytic clearance of apoptoti