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Phenotypic and functional heterogeneity of bovine blood monocytes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Hussen Jamal, Düvel Anna, Sandra Olivier, Smith David, Sheldon Iain Martin, Zieger Peter, Schuberth Hans-Joachim
Abstract excerpt
Murine and human peripheral blood monocytes are heterogeneous in size, granularity, nuclear morphology, phenotype and function. Whether and how bovine blood monocytes follow this pattern was analyzed in this study. Flow cytometrically, classical monocytes (cM) CD14⁺CD16⁻, intermediate monocytes (intM) CD14⁺ CD16⁺ and nonclassical monocytes (ncM) CD14⁺ CD16⁺ were identified, with cM being the predominant subset...
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