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SUBMITTER: Teles LM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3382372 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Teles Liz M B LM Aquino Elaine N EN Neves Anne C D AC Garcia Carlos H S CH Roepstorff Peter P Fontes Belchor B Castro Mariana S MS Fontes Wagner W
Protein and peptide letters 20120601 6
Neutrophils have an impressive array of microbicidal weapons, and in the presence of a pathogen, progress from a quiescent state in the bloodstream to a completely activated state. Failure to regulate this activation, for example, when the blood is flooded with cytokines after severe trauma, causes inappropriate neutrophil activation that paradoxically, is associated with tissue and organ damage. Acidic proteomic maps of quiescent human neutrophils were analyzed and compared to those of activate ...[more]