The Mer receptor tyrosine kinase is expressed on discrete macrophage subpopulations and mainly uses Gas6 as its ligand for uptake of apoptotic cells

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 138-144

  Shao, Wen Hai ^a   Zhen, Yuxuan ^a   Eisenberg, Robert A ^b   Cohen, Philip L ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptotic cell clearance; ; Gas6; Macrophage; ; Mer; ; Phagocytosis;

Indexed keywords

GROWTH ARREST SPECIFIC PROTEIN 6; LIGAND; MER RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERUM; SPLEEN; SPLEEN CELL; STAINING; THROMBOCYTE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD PLATELETS; DENDRITIC CELLS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIGANDS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SPLEEN;

EID: 69949158152     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: 15217035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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