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September 4, 2017

biosights by Rockefeller University Press

Sep 4, 201707:58Science & Medicine

Synaptic activity shifts dendritic lysosomes Invading pathogens or other toxic agents can trigger the assembly of the inflammasome adaptor ASC into large, intracellular specks that activate caspase-1 to initiate a proinf...

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