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Nature Medicine 15, 139 - 141 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nm0209-139

Vitamin B3 boosts neutrophil counts

Arati Khanna-Gupta1 & Nancy Berliner1

  1. Arati Khanna-Gupta and Nancy Berliner are at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
    e-mail: nberliner@partners.org


A molecular pathway requiring vitamin B3 increases the production of neutrophils (pages 151–158). These findings could lead to new ways to treat neutropenias, diseases involving low neutrophil counts.

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