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Description:: Phagocytosis is an essential mechanism for clearance of pathogens, dying cells, and other unwanted debris in order to maintain tissue health in the body. Macrophages execute this process in the peripheral immune system, but in the brain microglia act as resident macrophages to accomplish this function. In the peripheral immune...
Keyword:: MFG-E8, phagocytosis, apoptosis, Gas6, Alzheimer's disease, and microglia
Subject:: Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
Creator:: Abby Denise Fuller
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/14/2018
Date Modified:: 09/14/2018
Date Created:: 2008-08-11
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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