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Nature Medicine 14, 489 - 490 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0508-489

A shot in the arm for mast cells

Bali Pulendran1 & Santa J Ono2

  1. Bali Pulendran is at the Emory Vaccine Center & Department of Pathology, Emory University, 945 Gatewood Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, USA.
  2. Santa J. Ono is in the Departments of Ophthalmology, Medicine, Pediatrics and Biology, Emory University, Office of the Provost, 404 Administration Building, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.
    e-mail: bpulend@rmy.emory.edu


The search is on for for vaccine adjuvants that boost the innate immune response and complement existing adjuvants. Mast cell activators may be one option (pages 536–541).

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