The role of airway macrophages in apoptotic cell clearance following acute and chronic lung inflammation

Seminars in Immunopathology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 409-423

  Grabiec, Aleksander M ^a   Hussell, Tracy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airway macrophage; Apoptotic cell clearance; Efferocytosis; Inflammation; Lung; Phosphatidylserine

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPID; PROTEIN AXL; PROTEIN MERTK; PROTEIN TYRO3; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR;

APOPTOSIS; ASTHMA; CELL FUNCTION; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC PNEUMONIA; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DENDRITIC CELL; EFFEROCYTOSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG DISEASES; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BIOMARKERS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG DISEASES; MACROPHAGES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84960128253     PISSN: 18632297     EISSN: 18632300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00281-016-0555-3     Document Type: Review

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