Unconventional Antibody Defends Blood Vessels Against Sepsis (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Unconventional Antibody Defends Blood Vessels Against Sepsis (1 of 1)

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The antibody ABTAA provides vascular protection from sepsis. Representative images of intravital microscopy show the thickness (yellow solid bar) of endothelial surface layer in mice given sham treatment, Fc, ABA, or ABTAA (in order from left to right). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 20 April 2016 issue of <i>Science Translational Medicine</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Han at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in Suwon, Republic of Korea, and colleagues was titled, "Amelioration of sepsis by TIE2 activation-induced vascular protection."

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Han <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2016)

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