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. 2010 May 20;7(5):336-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2010.05.004.

A call to arms: interferons prepare bone marrow cells to battle peripheral infections

Jacob E Kohlmeier  1 , David L Woodland
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A call to arms: interferons prepare bone marrow cells to battle peripheral infections

Jacob E Kohlmeier et al. Cell Host Microbe. .
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Viral infection leads to the rapid production of type I interferons within infected tissues. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Hermesh et al. (2010) demonstrate that interferons produced following respiratory viral infection program leukocytes in the bone marrow to resist infection before trafficking to the lung.

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