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ReviewImmunological reviews2023

Understanding the diversity and dynamics of in vivo efferocytosis: Insights from the fly embryo.

Rosalind Heron, Clelia Amato, Will Wood, Andrew J Davidson

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Review in Immunological reviews, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Draper-mediated efferocytosis bybioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rosalind HeronInstitute for Regeneration and Repair, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Clelia AmatoInstitute for Regeneration and Repair, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Will WoodInstitute for Regeneration and Repair, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5485-0236
Andrew J DavidsonInstitute for Regeneration and Repair, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine · GBBeatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre · GB

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 218627/Z/19/ZWellcome Trust 22460/Z/21/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The clearance of dead and dying cells, termed efferocytosis, is a rapid and efficient process and one that is critical for organismal health. The extraordinary speed and efficiency with which dead cells are detected and engulfed by immune cells within tissues presents a challenge to researchers who wish to unravel this fascinating process, since these fleeting moments of uptake are almost impossible to catch in vivo. In recent years, the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) embryo has emerged as a powerful model to circumvent this problem. With its abundance of dying cells, specialist phagocytes and relative ease of live imaging, the humble fly embryo provides a unique opportunity to catch and study the moment of cell engulfment in real-time within a living animal. In this review, we explore the recent advances that have come from studies in the fly, and how live imaging and genetics have revealed a previously unappreciated level of diversity in the efferocytic program. A variety of efferocytic strategies across the phagocytic cell population ensure efficient and rapid clearance of corpses wherever death is encountered within the varied and complex setting of a multicellular living organism.

Indexed as

ApoptosisDrosophila melanogasterAnimalsDrosophilaHumansPhagocytesPhagocytosischemotaxisDrosophilainflammationin vivo imagingmonocytes/macrophagesphagocytosis

Identifiers

PMID37589239
PMCPMC10952863
OpenAlexW4385898353

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