Neutrophils and immunity: challenges and opportunities. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Scientists who study neutrophils often have backgrounds in cell biology, biochemistry, haematology, rheumatology or infectious disease. Paradoxically, immunologists seem to have a harder time incorporating these host-defence cells into the framework of their discipline. The recent literature discussed here indicates that it is appropriate for immunologists to take as much interest in neutrophils as in their lymphohaematopoietic cousins with smooth nuclei. Neutrophils inform and shape immune responses, contribute to the repair of tissue as well as its breakdown, use killing mechanisms that enrich our concepts of specificity, and offer exciting opportunities for the treatment of neoplastic, autoinflammatory and autoimmune disorders.

publication date

  • March 1, 2006

Research

keywords

  • Immunity
  • Neutrophils

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 33344468233

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1038/nri1785

PubMed ID

  • 16498448

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 6

issue

  • 3