Adherence and morphology of guinea pig alveolar macrophages: effect of N-formyl methionyl peptides.

AUTOR(ES)

Rossman, M D

RESUMO

N-Formyl methionyl phenylalanine increased alveolar macrophage adherence and diameter and induced morphological changes associated with activation. N-Formyl methionyl phenylalanine may be useful in understanding macrophage activation and bacteriolytic function.

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