Article
Isolation and phenotypic characterization of colonic macrophages.
Clinical and experimental immunology - 1 May 1998
Rogler G, Hausmann M, Vogl D, Aschenbrenner E, Andus T, Falk W, Andreesen R, Schölmerich J, Gross V
Abstract excerpt
Macrophages play an important role in the intestinal mucosal immune system. However, they are a poorly defined cell population. We therefore determined their phenotype in normal colonic mucosa. Macrophages were isolated from colonic biopsies and surgical specimens by collagenase digestion. Coloni...
Topics
- Antigen-Presenting Cells
- Antigens, CD
- Antigens, Differentiation, Myelomonocytic
- B7-2 Antigen
- Biomarkers
- Cell Separation
- Colon
- Flow Cytometry
- Humans
- Immunity, Mucosal
- Interleukin-1
- Intestinal Mucosa
- Macrophages
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Phenotype