Tissue macrophage heterogeneity: issues and prospects.

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The vast majority of macrophages in the body are present in tissues outside the circulation, yet their remarkable phenotypic heterogeneity within different anatomical compartments in the steady state and disease remains essentially unexplored. The development of immunocytochemical and fluorescent histological methods has revealed the presence and morphological diversity of macrophages within tissues, especially...

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