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Y Matzner, LM Brass, BJ McMurrich, WA Peters, J Andre-Schwartz and BM Babior
Neutrophils incubated with 20 mM F- express a respiratory burst without
degranulating or performing phagocytosis. After 60 min of F- treatment, the
burst is exhausted and cannot be restarted. Neutrophils so treated have a
microbicidal defect similar to that of chronic granulomatous disease (CGD):
they kill Str. mitis at a nearly normal rate, but show a marked impairment
in the destruction of S. aureus. They differ from CGD neutrophils in that
they also display a defect in motility. This defect, however, is not so
severe as to seriously impair their ability to kill bacteria by mechanisms
that are independent of endogenously generated microbicidal oxidants.
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