Endothelial cells (ECs) are a heterogeneous population that fulfills many physiological
processes. ECs also actively participate in both innate and adaptive immune responses …

Healing of wounds is one of the most complex biological events afterbirth as a result of the
interplay of different tissue structures and alarge number of resident and infiltrating cell …

IL-8, a member of the chemokine family, has been shown to play an important role in tumor
growth, angiogenesis, and metastasis. The objective of this study was to determine the …

Abstract Interleukin-8 (IL-8, or CXCL8), which is a chemokine with a defining CXC amino
acid motif that was initially characterized for its leukocyte chemotactic activity, is now known …

Chemokines and their receptors play a key role in development and homeostasis as well as
in the pathogenesis of tumors and autoimmune diseases. Chemokines are involved in the …

Chemokines are small peptides that are potent activators and chemoattractants for leukocyte
subpopulations and some nonhemopoietic cells. Their actions are mediated by a family of 7 …

Chemokines are seen as the stimuli that largely control leukocyte migration. To assess
whether the severely impaired process of cutaneous repair observed in genetically diabetic …

Sepsis is the systemic immune response to severe bacterial infection. The innate immune
recognition of bacterial and viral products is mediated by a family of transmembrane …

It is unknown why only a minority of circulating tumor cells trapped in lung capillaries form
metastases and involvement of immune cells remains uncertain. A novel model has been …

In the last decade, several groups have shown a direct correlation between the
inappropriate or ectopic release of interleukin (IL)-8 by tumor cells in vitro and their growth …