Regulation of eosinophil and neutrophil apoptosis – similarities and differences

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Apoptosis is the most common form of physiologic cell death and a necessary process to maintain cell numbers in multicellular organisms. In many chronic inflammatory diseases, reduced cell death of different types of granulocytes is one important mechanism for cell accumulation. Granulocytes are constantly produced in large amounts in the bone marrow and the same numbers die, under normal circumstances, within a...

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