Pentraxin 3(PTX 3): An Endogenous Modulator of the Inflammatory Response

• Autori principali: P. Kunes (Autore), Z. Holubcova (Autore), M. Kolackova (Autore), J. Krejsek (Autore)
• Natura: Libro
• Pubblicazione: Hindawi Limited, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Soggetti: article
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Inflammatory or anti-inflammatory? That is the question as far as the acute-phase response and its mediators, the pentraxins, are concerned. Only some ten years ago, the classical or short pentraxin C-reactive protein and the newly discovered long pentraxin PTX3 were considered to exert most of the...