14 October 2023
Burrowing Death Cleaners
A newly-discovered function for immune cells called neutrophils as the main clearers of cells undergoing the normal process of programmed death (apoptosis) daily in the liver. Unlike other cell types responsible for clearing the body's apoptosing cells which engulf, these neutrophils burrow in and dispose of the worn-out cell from the inside
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- Image from work by Lixiang Ma, Juan Zhao and Xiangyu Wang, and colleagues
- Department of Neurosurgery, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in eLife, September 2023
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