Necrosis: C-Type Lectins Sense Cell Death
Abstract
Summary. Recent studies have shown that C-type lectins, a family of surface receptors known to recognize microbial carbohydrate moieties, also sense products from dying cells and transduce inflammatory signals that modulate the immune system.
- Publication:
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Current Biology
- Pub Date:
- 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.032
- Bibcode:
- 2009CBio...19.R375C