Phagocytic Signaling: You Can Touch, but You Can’t Eat.
June 28th, 2008 | by admin |Phagocytic Signaling: You Can Touch, but You Can\’t Eat.
The ability of phagocytes to discriminate between viable/healthy and apoptotic/foreign/abnormal cells is of fundamental importance; a recent study provides new molecular insights into the function of CD47-SIRPalpha signaling in this discrimination.
Kinchen JM, Ravichandran KS.
Beirne Carter Center for Immunology Research, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA.