Neutrophil Extracellular Traps: How to Generate and Visualize Them

Neutrophil granulocytes are the most abundant group of leukocytes in the peripheral blood. As professional phagocytes, they engulf bacteria and kill them intracellularly when their antimicrobial granules fuse with the phagosome. We found that neutrophils have an additional way of killing microorgani...

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Main Authors: Brinkmann, Volker, Laube, Britta, Abu Abed, Ulrike, Goosmann, Christian, Zychlinsky, Arturo
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: MyJove Corporation 2010
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125121/