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The heterogeneity of lung macrophages in the susceptibility to disease.
European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society - 1 Sept 2015
Morales-Nebreda Luisa, Misharin Alexander V, Perlman Harris, Budinger G R Scott
Abstract excerpt
Alveolar macrophages are specialised resident phagocytes in the alveolus, constituting the first line of immune cellular defence in the lung. As the lung microenvironment is challenged and remodelled by inhaled pathogens and air particles, so is the alveolar macrophage pool altered by signals that maintain and/or replace its composition. The signals that induce the recruitment of circulating monocytes to the...
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