Neutrophil adhesion: A point for therapeutic intervention?

✍ Scribed by Martyn K. Robinson; Paul E. Stephens

• Book ID: 103978407
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 684 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0958-1669
• DOI: 10.1016/0958-1669(92)90013-9

✦ Synopsis

It has become increasingly clear over the last 20 years that the potential exists to modulate inflammatory responses with compounds that interfere with intercellular adhesion. This review highlights the adhesion interactions that occur during neutrophil extravasation and indicates some of the possible ways of disrupting these interactions.