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SUBMITTER: Guimaraes-Costa AB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3321301 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guimarães-Costa Anderson B AB Nascimento Michelle T C MT Wardini Amanda B AB Pinto-da-Silva Lucia H LH Saraiva Elvira M EM
Journal of parasitology research 20120226
Netosis is a recently described type of neutrophil death occurring with the release to the extracellular milieu of a lattice composed of DNA associated with histones and granular and cytoplasmic proteins. These webs, initially named neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), ensnare and kill microorganisms. Similarly, other cell types, such as eosinophils, mast cells, and macrophages, can also dye by this mechanism; thus, it was renamed as ETosis, meaning death with release of extracellular traps (E ...[more]