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Myeloperoxidase: a front-line defender against phagocytosed microorganisms
12 Oct 2012
Abstract excerpt
Successful immune defense requires integration of multiple effector systems to match the diverse virulence properties that members of the microbial world might express as they initiate and promote infection. Human neutrophils--the first cellular responders to invading microbes--exert most of their antimicrobial activity in phagosomes, specialized membrane-bound intracellular compartments formed by ingestion of...
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