Neutrophils Extrude DNA Webs (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University Press

Neutrophils Extrude DNA Webs

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Neutrophils usually keep their DNA (blue) tightly packaged into chromosomes in their nuclei (left), but molecules released by ovarian cancer cells can cause this DNA to unwind and extrude from neutrophils to form extracellular webs (red, right).

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Lee et al., 2018

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