Impaired macrophage phagocytosis of bacteria in severe asthma

BACKGROUND: Bacteria are frequently cultured from sputum samples of severe asthma patients suggesting a defect in bacterial clearance from the airway. We measured the capacity of macrophages from patients with asthma to phagocytose bacteria. METHODS: Phagocytosis of fluorescently-labelled polystyren...

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Autores principales: Liang, Zhike, Zhang, Qingling, Thomas, Catherine MR, Chana, Kirandeep K, Gibeon, David, Barnes, Peter J, Chung, Kian Fan, Bhavsar, Pankaj K, Donnelly, Louise E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4086996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24972601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-15-72

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4086996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24972601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-15-72

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