Macrophages employ quorum licensing to regulate collective activation

Macrophage activation is tightly regulated to maintain immune homeostasis, yet activation is also heterogeneous. Here, the authors show that macrophages coordinate activation by partitioning into two phenotypes that can nonlinearly amplify collective inflammatory cytokine production as a function of...

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Main Authors: Joseph J. Muldoon, Yishan Chuang, Neda Bagheri, Joshua N. Leonard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14547-y