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Neutrophils, apoptosis and phagocytic clearance: an innate sequence of cellular responses regulating intramacrophagic parasite infections
1 Mar 2006
Abstract excerpt
In complex organisms, apoptosis is a constitutive cell death process that is involved in physiological regulation of cell numbers and that can also be induced in the course of inflammatory and immune responses. Neutrophils are among the first cells recruited during inflammation. Neutrophils constitutively die by apoptosis at inflamed sites, and are ingested by macrophages. Recent studies investigated how...
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