Neutrophils in the activation and regulation of innate and adaptive immunity

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 519-531

  Mantovani, Alberto ^a,b   Cassatella, Marco A ^c   Costantini, Claudio ^c   Jaillon, Sébastien ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL FUNCTION; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; NEOPLASM; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; NEUTROPHILS;

EID: 79960829290     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri3024     Document Type: Review

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