Antimicrobial activities of chemokines: not just a side-effect?

The large family of chemoattractant cytokines (chemokines) embraces multiple, in part unrelated functions that go well beyond chemotaxis. Undoubtedly, the control of immune cell migration (chemotaxis) is the single, unifying response mediated by all chemokines, which involves the sequential engageme...

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Main Authors: Marlene eWolf, Bernhard eMoser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2012.00213/full