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Oxygen and the inflammatory cell

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The discovery that a single protein allows certain immune cells both to respond to low oxygen levels and to induce inflammation may provide a new target for drugs to treat diseases characterized by excessive inflammation.

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Figure 1: Factors that may control, or be controlled by, hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) in inflammatory sites with low oxygen levels.

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