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Chemokines and leukocyte traffic

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Twenty years after the discovery of chemokines is an appropriate time to review leukocyte traffic and to assess the knowledge and opportunities that have arisen from countless studies of the large and tight-knit family of chemotactic proteins.

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We thank M. Uguccioni and A. Lanzavecchia for discussions and input. The Institute for Research in Biomedicine is supported by the Helmut Horten Foundation.

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    Marco Baggiolini

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