Homeostatic removal of cellular 'corpses' within a tissue is determined by the composition of the local 'clearance crew'. Phagocytes that ingest apoptotic cells have been categorized as professional ...

Population pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenomics of erlotinib: Effect of drug exposure on treatment outcomes in Japanese patients with non-small cell lung cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from ...

Mononuclear phagocytes can both promote and inhibit inflammation. A team has now shown that individual phagocytes in the central nervous system can play both roles, sequentially adopting different ...

Conventional wisdom holds that microglia are the main phagocytes of the brain, mopping up dead cells and debris. The reality is more complicated, according to scientists led by Jaime Grutzendler at ...