## Abstract Albumin in low concentrations (0.001β0.01 weight percent) was found to be an effective inhibitor of phagocytosis of polystyrene latex beads by rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Polyglutamic acid proved to be an inhibitor of latex uptake at even lower concentrations. Polylysine stimul
Phagocytosis and the sialic acid of the surface of polymorphonuclear leukocytes
β Scribed by John Noseworthy Jr.; Helen Korchak; Manfred L. Karnovsky
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1972
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 533 KB
- Volume
- 79
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9541
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β¦ Synopsis
Treatment of polymorphonuclear leukocytes with sialidase releases about one-half of the total sialic acid of the cells. Such treatment af- fects neither phagocytic ingestion nor glycolysis. These results are in contrast to earlier data in the literature that indicate suppression of both functions mentioned upon desialation of these cells. The presence of an inhibitor of glycolysis that contaminated the crude enzyme previously used is suggested.
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