Phagocytosis of Dying Cells: From Molecular Mechanisms to Human Diseases

Chapter 1 Molecular Pathways of Different Types of Cell Death: Many Roads to Death

Chapter 2 Apoptotic, Autophagic and Necrotic Cell Death Types in Pathophysiological Conditions: Morphological and Histological Aspects

Chapter 3 Role of Attraction and Danger Signals in the Uptake of Apoptotic and Necrotic Cells and its Immunological Outcome

Chapter 4 Molecules Involved in Recognition and Clearance of Apoptotic/Necrotic Cells and Cell Debris

Chapter 5 Evolutionarily Conserved Pathways Regulating Engulfment of Apoptotic Cells

Chapter 6 Innate Apoptotic Immunity: A Potent Immunosuppressive Response Repertoire Elicited by Specific Apoptotic Cell Recognition

Chapter 7 Comparative Characterization of Non-professional and Professional Phagocyte Responses to Apoptotic Cells

Chapter 8 Methods Used to Study Apoptotic Cell Clearance

Chapter 9 Results of Defective Clearance of Apoptotic Cells: Lessons from Knock-out Mouse Models

Chapter 10 Clearance of Dying Cells and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Chapter 11 Apoptotic Cells for Therapy of Transplant Rejection

Chapter 12 Impact of Tumour Cell Death on the Activation of Anti-tumour Immune Response

Chapter 13 Phagocytosis of Dying Cells in the Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis

Chapter 14 The Impact of Defective Clearance of Apoptotic Cells in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Lung Diseases: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Asthma and Cystic Fibrosis

Chapter 15 Environmental Factors Affecting Phagocytosis of Dying Cells:Smoking and Static Magnetic Fields