Pathogenic neisseria hitchhike on the uropod of human neutrophils

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• who: Neutrophils et al. from the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute, HuddingeEditor: Dipshikha Chakravortty, Indian Institute of Science, India have published the Article: Pathogenic Neisseria Hitchhike on the Uropod of Human Neutrophils, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of September/16,/2011
• what: Using live cell imaging techniques, the authors demonstrate a new mechanism where pathogenic Neisseria can hitchhike on the uropod of PMNs and thereby avoid the phagocytic activity of the PMNs and simultaneously increase their ability to spread at the epithelial_cell layer. The authors show . . .
  

   

  

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