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Tuberculosis Triggers a Tissue-Dependent Program of Differentiation and Acquisition of Effector Functions by Circulating Monocytes
1 Nov 2008
Abstract excerpt
The origin and function of the different myeloid cell subsets that appear in the lung during pulmonary tuberculosis are unknown. Herein we show that adoptively transferred monocytes give rise to many of the macrophage and dendritic cell (DC) subsets that appear following aerosol infection with virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Monocyte differentiation in infected peripheral tissue is surprisingly heterogeneous...
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