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Immune 50: Red blood cells are immune sentinels

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Is There Any Role in the Ct Forty Seven?

Scientists have found that red blood cells can bind up the dna, get eaten by a macer fage and then trigger teel or nine. Red blood sells are negative for tailer nine in mice with arithrocite knock-out. If you lack t l or nine on te rithrecites, i would have predicted that the macrpages combined to the dna and take it up and thaw, you get response. Turns out that the response is much lower. What that tells us is that this is a biologically relevant phenomenon. It's like little d and a delivery sayers, little an a delivery systems. And it's both localized. So they did this

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