Intestinal macrophages in health and inflammation
The healthy large intestinal mucosa contains a vast pool of macrophages (mφ) that are close to the local bacterial flora and have several unique phenotypic and functional properties compared with other mφ populations. Although human colonic mφ retain some of the hallmark functions of mφ, such as the...
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University of Glasgow
2009
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