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Investigation of Macrophage Polarization Using Bone Marrow Derived Macrophages
Published on: June 23, 2013
New vistas on macrophage differentiation and activation
Alberto Mantovani1, Antonio Sica, Massimo Locati
1Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, Italy. alberto.mantovani@humanitas.it
European Journal of Immunology
|December 22, 2006
Abstract:
Plasticity and heterogeneity are hallmarks of myelomonocytic differentiation and polarized activation. Evidence published in this issue of the European Journal of Immunology, together with other recent data, add new elements and perspectives to the current understanding of mononuclear phagocyte differentiation and activation and are discussed in this Commentary.
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