Article
Development, differentiation, and phenotypic heterogeneity of murine tissue macrophages.
Journal of leukocyte biology - 1 Feb 1996
Naito M, Umeda S, Yamamoto T, Moriyama H, Umezu H, Hasegawa G, Usuda H, Shultz L D, Takahashi K
Abstract excerpt
In murine ontogeny, macrophage precursor cells develop in the yolk sac and fetal liver. Primitive macrophages also appear in the yolk sac, migrate to various tissues, and differentiate into several fetal macrophage populations. Because the development of the monocytic cell lineage is incomplete i...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Division
- Macrophages
- Mice
- Phenotype