Immune 15: Happy neu-trophil year

Stephanie takes the Immune team on a tour of neutrophils, the most abundant leukocytes in mammals, including tethers and slings, neutrophil rolling, and neutrophil nets.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Stephanie Langel, and Cynthia Leifer

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Links for this episode

• Slings enable neutrophil rolling (Nature)
• Sling video (La Jolla Inst Allergy Immunol)
• Neutrophil extracellular traps kill bacteria (Science)
• Neutrophil review (Sci Immunol)
• Image credit
• Time stamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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