Phagocytic removal of cells that have become unwanted: Implications for animal development and tissue homeostasis

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 149-160

  Nakanishi, Yoshinobu ^a   Nagaosa, Kaz ^a   Shiratsuchi, Akiko ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell cell recognition; Innate immunity; Morphogenesis; Phagocyte; Tissue homeostasis

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; CELL FATE; CELL RENEWAL; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HOMEOSTASIS; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; TISSUE REPAIR; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79951815134     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2010.01224.x     Document Type: Review

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