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Science 15 December 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5806, pp. 1689 - 1690
DOI: 10.1126/science.1137190
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Purinergic Chemotaxis

Joel Linden

Release of adenosine 5'-triphosphate from immune cells in response to membrane deformation implicates purinergic signaling in cell migration during host defense responses.

The author is in the Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA. E-mail: jlinden{at}virginia.edu

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