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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Immunol. 2020 Nov 13;21(5):292–304. doi: 10.1038/s41577-020-00456-0

Figure 4 |. The role of the environment.

Figure 4 |

The tissue environment can contribute to determining the effector response of the efferocyte either directly through specialized cytokines that are uniquely present in an environment, or through unique tissue-specific epigenetic and/or transcriptional changes or unique metabolic functions associated with a specific environment, or indirectly by influencing the type of cell death, which in turn can affect the effector response.