Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Directed transport of neutrophil-derived extracellular vesicles enables platelet-mediated innate immune response

  • Jan Rossaint,
  • Katharina Kühne,
  • Jennifer Skupski,
  • Hugo Van Aken,
  • Mark R. Looney,
  • Andres Hidalgo,
  • Alexander Zarbock

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13464
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Interaction between platelets and neutrophils promotes neutrophil activation. Here the authors show that neutrophils initiate the cross-talk with platelets by shuttling arachidonic acid via extracellular vesicles, which platelets convert to thromboxane A2that then elicits neutrophil activation.