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SUBMITTER: Kamei A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5068317 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kamei Akinobu A Gao Geli G Neale Geoffrey G Loh Lip Nam LN Vogel Peter P Thomas Paul G PG Tuomanen Elaine I EI Murray Peter J PJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160926 41
Infection is the single greatest threat to survival during cancer chemotherapy because of depletion of bone marrow-derived immune cells. Phagocytes, especially neutrophils, are key effectors in immunity to extracellular pathogens, which has limited the development of new approaches to protect patients with cancer and chemotherapy-induced neutropenia. Using a model of vaccine-induced protection against lethal Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia in the setting of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia, we ...[more]