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Volume 77A, Number 6, 2010 Cover Image
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
cytometry part a
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.316
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1552-4930
pISSN - 1552-4922
DOI - 10.1002/cyto.a.20924
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , rna , lipid raft , microbiology and biotechnology , function (biology) , dna , chemistry , antigen , biophysics , computational biology , biology , cell , biochemistry , immunology , gene , engineering , mechanical engineering
Cells under stress, or when dying, produce microparticles that can be found in the serum. They carry parts of the mother cells' surface molecules such as antigens or lipid rafts and may contain RNA or DNA. Thus, by differential labeling the source of the microparticles, their function can be scrutinized, as comprehensively reviewed by Orozco and Lewis on page 502 in this issue. The cover image shows an “exploding” T‐lymphocyte that releases different types of microparticles.