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Neutrophil Elastase Defects in Congenital Neutropenia.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2021
Rydzynska Zuzanna, Pawlik Bartlomiej, Krzyzanowski Damian, Mlynarski Wojciech, Madzio Joanna
Abstract excerpt
Severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) is a rare hematological condition with heterogenous genetic background. Neutrophil elastase (NE) encoded by ELANE gene is mutated in over half of the SCN cases. The role of NE defects in myelocytes maturation arrest in bone marrow is widely investigated; however, the mechanism underlying this phenomenon has still remained unclear. In this review, we sum up the studies exploring...
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