After earning notoriety as the first cellular receptor isolated and mammalian lectin identified, the Ashwell-Morell receptor’s functions in our bodies eluded scientists for more than 30 years.
In 2008, scientists in San Diego shed new light on this landmark liver cell receptor by identifying its roles in sepsis. Those experiments revealed that the Ashwell-Morell receptor’s binding partners — known as ligands — modulated blood clotting in determining host survival of sepsis.
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