Table of Contents

Molecular Mechanisms of Phagocytosis of Dying Cells.- Molecular Pathways of Different Types of Cell Death: Many Roads to Death.- Apoptotic, Autophagic and Necrotic Cell Death Types in Pathophysiological Conditions: Morphological and Histological Aspects.- Role of Attraction and Danger Signals in the Uptake of Apoptotic and Necrotic Cells and its Immunological Outcome.- Molecules Involved in Recognition and Clearance of Apoptotic/Necrotic Cells and Cell Debris.- Evolutionarily Conserved Pathways Regulating Engulfment of Apoptotic Cells.- Innate Apoptotic Immunity: A Potent Immunosuppressive Response Repertoire Elicited by Specific Apoptotic Cell Recognition.- Comparative Characterization of Non-professional and Professional Phagocyte Responses to Apoptotic Cells.- Methods Used to Study Apoptotic Cell Clearance.- Impairment of Phagocytosis of Dying Cells and its Role in the Development of Diseases.- Results of Defective Clearance of Apoptotic Cells: Lessons from Knock-out Mouse Models.- Clearance of Dying Cells and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.- Apoptotic Cells for Therapy of Transplant Rejection.- Impact of Tumour Cell Death on the Activation of Anti-tumour Immune Response.- Phagocytosis of Dying Cells in the Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis.- The Impact of Defective Clearance of Apoptotic Cells in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Lung Diseases: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Asthma and Cystic Fibrosis.- Environmental Factors Affecting Phagocytosis of Dying Cells:Smoking and Static Magnetic Fields.