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Oxygenated lipids: a mode to WiPE out inflammation?
Amelia E Hochreiter-Hufford1, Kodi S Ravichandran
1Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, Carter Immunology Center, and Center for Cell Clearance, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Abstract:
The immunologically silent clearance of apoptotic cells is crucial for maintaining self-tolerance. In this issue of Immunity, Uderhardt et al. (2012) reveal a mechanism by which lipid oxidation by tissue resident macrophages could inhibit the engulfment of apoptotic cells by inflammatory monocytes.
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