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Cationic polyelectrolytes: A new look at their possible roles as opsonins, as stimulators of respiratory burst in leukocytes, in bacteriolysis, and as modulators of immune-complex diseases (A review hypothesis)

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This study was supported in part by a research grant from Dr. S.M. Robbins of Cleveland, Ohio; by grant CA-36132 from U.S. Public Health Service awarded to Dr. James Varani, and by grants GM-29507 and P01-HL-31963 (Program Project) awarded to Dr. P. Ward by the U.S. Public Health Sendee. Parts of the work described in the review were performed by the author during tenure as a visiting professor at the Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, in 1985 and 1986.

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Ginsburg, I. Cationic polyelectrolytes: A new look at their possible roles as opsonins, as stimulators of respiratory burst in leukocytes, in bacteriolysis, and as modulators of immune-complex diseases (A review hypothesis). Inflammation 11, 489–515 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00915991

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