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SUBMITTER: Nascimento DO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5977906 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nascimento Danielle de Oliveira DO Vieira-de-Abreu Adriana A Arcanjo Angélica F AF Bozza Patricia Torres PT Zimmerman Guy A GA Castro-Faria-Neto Hugo Caire HC
Frontiers in immunology 20180524
β<sub>2</sub> integrins are critical in host defense responses to invading pathogens and inflammation. Previously, we reported that genetic deficiency of integrin α<sub>D</sub>β<sub>2</sub> in mice altered outcomes in experimental systemic infections including accelerated mortality in animals infected with <i>Salmonella enterica</i> serovar Typhimurium. Here, we show that deficiency of α<sub>D</sub>β<sub>2</sub> results in impaired accumulation of leukocytes in response to peritoneal infection b ...[more]