Apoptotic Cell Clearance in Health and Disease

• Main Author: Amiram Ariel (auth)
• Other Authors: Kirsten Lauber (auth), Estee Kurant (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; Phagocytes; immune-regulation; development; Efferocytosis; Homeostasis; neurodegeneration; tumorigenesis; Apoptosis; receptor-ligand interactions
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Clearance of apoptotic cells is essential for proper development, homeostasis and termination of immune responses in multicellular organisms. Thus, cellular and molecular players taking part in the sequential events of this process are of great interest. Research in the last 20 years has indicated t...