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Impaired neutrophil activity and increased susceptibility to bacterial infection in mice lacking glucose-6-phosphatase-beta.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Mar 2007
Cheung Yuk Yin, Kim So Youn, Yiu Wai Han, Pan Chi-Jiunn, Jun Hyun-Sik, Ruef Robert A, Lee Eric J, Westphal Heiner, Mansfield Brian C, Chou Janice Y
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Neutropenia and neutrophil dysfunction are common in many diseases, although their etiology is often unclear. Previous views held that there was a single ER enzyme, glucose-6-phosphatase-alpha (G6Pase-alpha), whose activity--limited to the liver, kidney, and intestine--was solely responsible for...
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