Effects of cigarette smoke and smoke condensate on neutrophil extracellular trap formation
Background: Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) constitute a network of chromatin fibres containing histone and antimicrobial peptides that are released by activated neutrophils. NETs protect the host against infection by trapping and facilitating phagocytosis of potentially harmful pathogens. Ob...
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University of Pretoria
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/61670 Bokaba, RP 2016, Effects of cigarette smoke and smoke condensate on neutrophil extracellular trap formation, MSc Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/61670> |