Repulsive encounters

Giovanna Chimini ()
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Giovanna Chimini: the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, INSERM-CNRS-Université de la Mediterranée, Parc Scientifique de Luminy

Nature, 2002, vol. 418, issue 6894, 139-141

Abstract: In multicellular organisms, cells are often required to die. They are then eaten by 'phagocytic' cells. But how do the phagocytes distinguish between dead and living prey? New work provides an unexpected answer.

Date: 2002
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