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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2019

6-Sulfo LacNAc (Slan) as a Marker for Non-classical Monocytes.

Thomas P Hofer, Arjan A van de Loosdrecht, Christiane Stahl-Hennig, Marco A Cassatella, Loems Ziegler-Heitbrock

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Thomas P HoferImmunoanalytics Core Facility and RG Tissue Control of Immunocytes, Helmholtz Centre Munich, Munich, Germany.
Arjan A van de LoosdrechtDepartment of Hematology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Christiane Stahl-HennigDeutsches Primatenzentrum, Göttingen, Germany.
Marco A CassatellaSection of General Pathology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Loems Ziegler-HeitbrockIndependent Researcher, Munich, Germany.
Amsterdam UMC Location VUmc · NLGerman Primate Center · DEHelmholtz Zentrum München · DEUniversity of Verona · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Monocytes are subdivided into three subsets, which have different phenotypic and functional characteristics and different roles in inflammation and malignancy. When in man CD14 and CD16 monoclonal antibodies are used to define these subsets, then the distinction of non-classical CD14low and intermediate CD14high monocytes requires setting a gate in what is a gradually changing level of CD14 expression. In the search for an additional marker to better dissect the two subsets we have explored the marker 6-sulfo LacNAc (slan). Slan is a carbohydrate residue originally described to be expressed on the cell surface of a type of dendritic cell in human blood. We elaborate herein that the features of slan+ cells are congruent with the features of CD16+ non-classical monocytes and that slan is a candidate marker for definition of non-classical monocytes. The use of this marker may help in studying the role of non-classical monocytes in health and in diagnosis and monitoring of disease.

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Amino SugarsAnimalsBiomarkersDendritic CellsHumansInflammationMonocytesNeoplasmsPhenotype6-sulfo-LacNacAmino SugarsBiomarkerscancerCMMLinflammationlymphomamanmonkeymonocyte subsetsslan

Identifiers

PMID31572354
PMCPMC6753898
OpenAlexW2969146437

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