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Chemokine receptor

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Chemokine receptor
A receptor on the surface of some types of immune cells that helps to mediate entry of HIV into the cell.
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Chemokine receptor usage by human eosinophils: The importance of CCR3 demonstrated using an antagonistic monoclonal antibody.
When investigators created mice lacking the chemokine receptor CXCR4, which is one that HIV exploits, the rodents died as embryos, their hearts and blood vessels riddled with defects.
 
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