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Establishment of self-renewable GM-CSF-dependent immature macrophages in vitro from murine bone marrow.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Ito Sachiko, Tanaka Yuriko, Nishio Naomi, Thanasegaran Suganya, Isobe Ken-Ichi
Abstract excerpt
Macrophages play a key role in the innate immune system. Macrophages are thought to originate from hematopoietic precursors or the yolk sac. Here, we describe the in vitro establishment of self-renewable GM-CSF-dependent immature macrophages (GM-IMs) from murine bone marrow (BM). GM-IMs grow continuously in vitro in conditioned medium containing GM-CSF. The immunophenotype of GM-IMs is F4/80(high) CD11b(high)...
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