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Phagocytic Signaling: You Can Touch, but You Can't Eat

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Journal Curr Biol
Publisher Cell Press
Specialty Biology
Date 2008 Jun 27
PMID 18579095
Citations 27
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Abstract

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-SIRP alpha signaling in this discrimination.

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