Article
An Unexpected Role of Neutrophils in Clearing Apoptotic Hepatocytes <i>In Vivo</i>
2023-02-08
Abstract excerpt
Billions of apoptotic cells are removed daily in a human adult by professional phagocytes (e.g. macrophages) and neighboring nonprofessional phagocytes (e.g. stromal cells). Despite being a type of professional phagocyte, neutrophils are thought to be excluded from apoptotic sites to avoid tissue inflammation. Here we report a fundamental and unexpected role of neutrophils as the predominant phagocyte responsible...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 90905e34-7db2-5404-b6bf-0c4fa0f6580d
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.02.08.527616
