Medical Hypotheses
Volume 65, Issue 1 , Pages 23-28, 2005

The scavenger cell hypothesis of apoptosis: Apoptosis redefined as a process by which a cell in living tissue is destroyed by phagocytosis

Department of Pathology, Wayne State University School of Medicine and Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, 110 E. Warren Avenue, MI 48201, USA

Received 12 January 2005; accepted 27 January 2005. published online 29 March 2005.

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PII: S0306-9877(05)00071-X

doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2005.01.028

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 65, Issue 1 , Pages 23-28, 2005