Not only do they regularly cycle through phases of regeneration and destruction, but they are also an immune-privileged niche, meaning professional phagocytes don’t actively patrol the area. Early in ...

In this study, Weichhart et al. investigated how mTOR activity in phagocytes regulates the innate inflammatory response. The mTOR pathway is activated in phagocytes in response to bacterial ...

A single phagocyte typically ingests an entire apoptotic corpse, essentially doubling its content. Because phagocytes often ingest multiple targets in succession, we propose the existence of ...