Cell-in-cell phenomena, cannibalism, and autophagy: is there a relationship?

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Phagocytosis is usually thought of as a process by which macrophages engulf unwanted material to clear it from the body, and possibly to present it to the immune system. However, what we consider as granted today was not so granted up to a century ago. In fact, Ilya Ilyich Metchnikoff (also written as Élie Metchnikoff), who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908, thought he had understood the...

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