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Editorial
. 2017 Nov 14;18(11):2415.
doi: 10.3390/ijms18112415.

Regulation of Chemokine-Receptor Interactions and Functions

Martin J Stone  1
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Editorial

Regulation of Chemokine-Receptor Interactions and Functions

Martin J Stone. Int J Mol Sci. .

Abstract

Inflammation is the body's response to injury or infection. As early as 2000 years ago, the Roman encyclopaedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus recognised four cardinal signs of this response-redness, heat, swelling and pain; a fifth sign is loss of function.[...].

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