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Measuring Apoptotic Cell Engulfment (Efferocytosis) Efficiency

Matthew C Gage1

  • 1Division of Medicine, Centre for Cardiometabolic Medicine, University College of London, London, UK. m.gage@ucl.ac.uk.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|March 3, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
ApoptosisBMDMEfferocytosisEngulfmentJurkatsMacrophagesNuclear receptors

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