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Extracellular haemoglobin upregulates and binds to tissue factor on macrophages: implications for coagulation and oxidative stress.
Thrombosis and haemostasis - 1 Jan 2014
Bahl Neha, Winarsih Imelda, Tucker-Kellogg Lisa, Ding Jeak Ling
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The mechanisms of crosstalk between haemolysis, coagulation and innate immunity are evolutionarily conserved from the invertebrate haemocyanin to the vertebrate haemoglobin (Hb). In vertebrates, extracellular Hb resulting from haemolytic infections binds bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to unleash the antimicrobial redox activity of Hb. Because bacterial invasion also upregulates tissue factor (TF), the...
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