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. 2020 Jul 1;12(7):1748. doi: 10.3390/cancers12071748

Table 1.

Summary of ROS Functions and Effects on Immune Cells.

Cell Effects of Reactive Oxygen Species References
Leukocytes Recruitment to inflamed tissues [10,11,12,13,70,71]
Phagocytes Recognition and engulfment of damaged cells [14]
Pathogen killing and damaged cells clearance [15]
Neutrophils Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NET) formation [16]
Cytotoxic activity [72,73,74,75]
Macrophages Inflammasome activation [3,4]
Polarization [17,18,76,77]
Tregs recruitment [71]
NK cells NK cells-mediated cytolysis [19]
Suppression of NK functions [70,78,79,80,81,82]
Induction of apoptosis [79,83]
DCs Differentiation from precursors [20]
Maturation [84]
Antigen cross-presentation [21,85,86,87]
T cells Activation [22,23,27,28,29]
Differentiation [30,31]
Inhibition [33,37,38,78,88,89,90,91]
Apoptosis [32,34]
B cells Activation and differentiation [24,25]
Pathogen elimination by antibodies production [26]
Tregs Accumulation in oxidative microenvironment [92]
T-reg mediated suppression [35,36,93]
MDSCs MDSC-mediated immunosuppression [39,40,41,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101]
Maintenance of MDSCs phenotype [102,103]