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Commensal microbiota drive the functional diversification of colon macrophages.
Mucosal immunology - 1 Mar 2020
Kang Byunghyun, Alvarado Luigi J, Kim Teayong, Lehmann Michael L, Cho Hyeseon, He Jianping, Li Peng, Kim Bong-Hyun, Larochelle Andre, Kelsall Brian L
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Mononuclear phagocytes are a heterogeneous population of leukocytes essential for immune homeostasis that develop tissue-specific functions due to unique transcriptional programs driven by local microenvironmental cues. Single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) of colonic myeloid cells from specific pathogen free (SPF) and germ-free (GF) C57BL/6 mice revealed extensive heterogeneity of both colon macrophages (MPs)...
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