Part I. Molecular mechanisms of phagocytosis of dying cells\nChapter 1. Molecular pathways of different types of cell death: many roads to death, Dmitri V. Krysko, Agnieszka Kaczmarek and Peter Vandenabeele

Chapter 2. Apoptotic, necrotic and autophagic cell death types in pathophysiological conditions: morphological and histological aspects, Araceli Diez-Fraile, Tim Lammens and Katharina D\'Herde

Chapter 3. Role of attraction and danger signals in the uptake of apoptotic and necrotic cells and its immunological outcome, Christoph Peter, Sebastian Wesselborg, Kirsten Lauber

Chapter 4. Molecules involved in recognition and clearance of apoptotic/necrotic cells and cell debris, Markus Napirei and Hans Georg Mannherz

Chapter 5. Evolutionarily conserved pathways regulating engulfment of apoptotic cells, Matthew A. Gronski and Kodi S. Ravichandran

Chapter 6. Innate apoptotic immunity: a potent immunosuppressive response repertoire elicited by specific apoptotic cell recognition, David S. Ucker

Chapter 7. Comparative characterization of non-professional and professional phagocyte responses to apoptotic cells, Adam Lacy-Hulbert

Chapter 8. Methods used to study apoptotic cell clearance, Uriel Trahtemberg and Dror Mevorach

Part II. Impairment of phagocytosis of dying cells and its role in the development of diseases\nChapter 9. Results of defective clearance of apoptotic cells: lessons from knockout mouse models, Christopher D Gregory and John D Pound

Chapter 10. Clearance of dying cells and systemic lupus erythematosus, Dror Mevorach

Chapter 11. Apoptotic cells for therapy of transplant rejection, Sherrie J. Divito and Adrian E. Morelli

Chapter 12. Impact of tumor cell death on the activation of anti-tumor immune response, Jirina Bartunková and Radek Spísek

Chapter 13. Phagocytosis of dying cells in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, WimMartinet, Dorien M Schrijvers, Guido RY De Meyer

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, Paul N. Reynolds and Sandra J. Hodge

Chapter 15. Environmental factors affecting phagocytosis of dying cells: smoking and static magnetic fields, Luciana Dini and Cristian Vergallo

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