To understand this complex network, various techniques have been developed to identify chemokine-producing cells. However, it has not yet been possible to determine which cells react to these ...

Chemokines are a subclass of cytokines, a large family of small secreted proteins that communicate via G protein-coupled heptahelical chemokine receptors on the cell surface. Atrial fibrillation ...

Now, Bernhagen and colleagues, writing in Nature Medicine, have identified MIF as a ligand for the CXC-chemokine receptors CXCR2 and CXCR4, and suggest that targeting MIF could be used as an ...