Unsticky Neutrophils

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Nearly everyone knows that stickiness of platelets is essential to their function, but the importance of neutrophil stickiness may not be so well appreciated. Despite its long history of scientific observations, dating back to 1824,1 neutrophil stickiness has received relatively little attention. The recent scholarly review of phagocytosis (mostly about neutrophils) by Stossel2 in the Journal covered production, deployment, chemotaxis, recognition, ingestion, degranulation, peroxide formation, killing, and digestion, but it did not say much about variations in the sticky character of neutrophils. Thus, the article in this issue by MacGregor and his associates is welcome as a supplement to the . . .

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