Hematologically important mutations : leukocyte adhesion deficiency (first update)

• Main Authors: Holland, Steven M., Belohradsky, Bernd H., Kuijpers, Taco W., Van de Vijver, Edith, Maddalena, Anne, Sanal, Özden, Uzel, Gulbu, Madkaikar, Manisha, de Boer, Martin, Van Leeuwen, Karin, Köker, M. Yavuz, Parvaneh, Nima, Fischer, Alain, Law, S. K. Alex, Klein, Nigel, Tezcan, F. Ilhan, Unal, Ekrem, Patiroglu, Turkan, Schwartz, Klaus, Somech, Raz, Roos, Dirk
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99059; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12687
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD) is an immunodeficiency caused by defects in the adhesion of leukocytes (especially neutrophils) to the blood vessel wall. As a result, patients with LAD suffer from severe bacterial infections and impaired wound healing, accompanied by neutrophilia. In LAD-I, muta...