Books /Neutrophil Function: From Mechanisms to Disease

9781639271849

American Medical Publishers

English

2021

173

$ 116

Neutrophils are a type of short-lived, white cells that form an integral part of the innate immune system. There are several functions of neutrophils such as chemotaxis, anti-microbial function, degranulation, neutrophil extracellular traps, and phagocytosis. Chemotaxis is a process through which neutrophils migrate towards the sites of infection. Neutrophil disorders include autoimmune neutropenia of infancy, Chediak-Higashi syndrome, chronic granulomatous disease, cyclic neutropenia, drug-induced neutropenia, ethnic neutropenia, etc. The treatment for neutropenia can be done through granulocyte-colony stimulating factor, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and antibiotics. This book presents the complex concept of neutrophil function in the most comprehensible and easy-to-understand language. The topics covered in this extensive book deal with the mechanisms and diseases related to neutrophils. It will serve as a reference to a broad spectrum of readers.