Neutrophil extracellular traps in breast cancer and beyond: current perspectives on NET stimuli, thrombosis and metastasis, and clinical utility for diagnosis and treatment

Abstract The formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), known as NETosis, was first observed as a novel immune response to bacterial infection, but has since been found to occur abnormally in a variety of other inflammatory disease states including cancer. Breast cancer is the most commonly...

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Main Authors: Hunter T. Snoderly, Brian A. Boone, Margaret F. Bennewitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:Breast Cancer Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-019-1237-6