During sterile inflammation, emigrating leukocytes sequentially engage subsets of pericytes associated with blood vessels and acquire adhesive, migratory and survival signals.
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Alon, R., Nourshargh, S. Learning in motion: pericytes instruct migrating innate leukocytes. Nat Immunol 14, 14–15 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.2489
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