Code
3E008608
Duration
01 October 2008 → 15 October 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Medical and health sciences
- Immunology
- Physiology
- Immunology
- Physiology
- Immunology
- Physiology
Keywords
inflammation
phagocytosis
dying cells
Project description
The aim of this project is to investigate in a comparative way the interaction and communication of different types of dying ells (apoptotic, necrotic and autophagic) with the innate immune system. In the second part of this project we will perform molecular identification, characterization and validation of DAMPs (death associated molecular patterns), which are involved in the immunomodulatory properties of dying cells.