The development of giant phagocytes in long-term neutrophil cultures.

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We tested the hypothesis that in long-term culture conditions, some neutrophils remain viable and participate in debris clearance, and autophagy is involved in their prolonged survival. Neutrophils, classified as professional phagocytes, have the shortest half-life among leukocytes and are constitutively committed to apoptosis. Apoptotic neutrophils are actively removed by Mφ/DCs. However, early and acute...

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