Double-Wrapped and Disposed: How Efferocytosis Kills M. tuberculosis

• DOI: 10.1128/microbe.8.21.1
• Publication Date: 2014-05-25T15:09:28Z
• Authors: Constance J. Martin; Samuel M. Behar
• Keywords: efferocytosis

Cell death is continual in multicelluar organisms. During development, vestigial organs and structures appear disappear. Webbing between our fingers, which necessary for them to form properly, disappears the 6th 8th weeks of fetal development through programmed cell death. Cells typically have limited life spans. Neutrophils, example, survive only hours days after being released into circulation. Moreover, injury diseases cause cells die.