Role of angiostatin in neutrophil biology and acute lung injury
Acute lung injury is marked by profound neutrophil influx along with fluid accumulation that impairs lung function at the cost of high mortality (up to 40%). Neutrophils are activated and their constitutive apoptosis is inhibited during this phase in order to be competent phagocytes over the next fe...
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University of Saskatchewan
2011
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| Online Access: | http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-08152011-114303/ |