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The Phenotype of Inflammatory Macrophages Is Stimulus Dependent: Implications for the Nature of the Inflammatory Response
1 Nov 2003
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Many diseases are characterized by inflammatory reactions involving both the innate and adaptive arms of the immune system. Thioglycolate medium (TM) injection into the peritoneal cavity has long been used as a stimulus for eliciting inflammatory macrophages for study and for determining the importance of a particular mediator in inflammation. However, the response to this irritant may not be relevant to many...
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