Phagocytosis of Dying Cells: From Molecular Mechanisms to Human Diseases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Krysko, Dmitri V. (Editor), Vandenabeele, Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Immunology.; Oncology.; Rheumatology.; Apoptosis.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.

Phagocytosis has been at the forefront of cell biology for more than a century. Initially, phagocytosis, which comes from Greek words meaning “devouring cells,” was discovered in the late 19th century by Ilya Metchnikoff, who was awarded, together with Paul Ehrlich, the Nobel Prize in Physiology and...