The regulation of cell number in adult tissues is determined by the balance of cell production and cell loss. In the gastrointestinal tract, where there ar...
In macrophages, engulfment of apoptotic bodies induces expression of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta), a profibrogenic cytokine. We examined whether...
A Canbay，P Taimr，N Torok，... - Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology
ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporters define a family of proteins with strong structural similarities conserved across evolution and devoted to the trans...
Ficolin-2 is a serum opsonin, which has been shown to be a pattern recognition molecule in the lectin complement activation pathway. Because innate immune ...
The secreted phosphatidylserine-binding protein milk fat globule epidermal growth factor 8 (Mfge8) mediates engulfment of apoptotic germinal center B cells...
surface of alternatively activated macrophages and is recruited to the sites of recognition and engulfment of apoptotic bodies, as well as to early phagosome...
in the engulfment and removal of apoptotic cell bodies, relatively little is yet known about the non-phagocytic cellular responses to the apoptosis program....
