Efferocytosis

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School Cancer Center, 205 South Orange Avenue, H1212, Newark, NJ 07103, USA.
² Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School Cancer Center, 205 South Orange Avenue, H1212, Newark, NJ 07103, USA. Electronic address: birgera@njms.rutgers.edu.

Free article

Sushil Kumar et al. Curr Biol. 2016.

Free article

. 2016 Jul 11;26(13):R558-R559.

doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.059.

¹ Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School Cancer Center, 205 South Orange Avenue, H1212, Newark, NJ 07103, USA.
² Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School Cancer Center, 205 South Orange Avenue, H1212, Newark, NJ 07103, USA. Electronic address: birgera@njms.rutgers.edu.

Abstract

Kumar and Birge introduce efferocytosis - the process by which dead or dying cells are engulfed and digested by phagocytes.