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Nature Cell Biology 3, E53 - E54 (2001)
doi:10.1038/35055166
Chemokines: back to the future?
Craig Gerard1 & Norma P. Gerard1
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Craig Gerard and Norma P. Gerard are in the Department
of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School,
300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
02115, USA
e-mail: craig.gerard@tch.harvard.edu
Abstract
Chemokines are generally appreciated within the realm of immunology as chemoattractant cytokines that are involved in constitutive and inducible movement of white blood cells. However, evidence increasingly points to a broader function of chemokines in cellular and developmental biology, and the initially T-associated chemokine RANTES has now been shown to produce age-dependent effects on developing human astrocytes.
