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Quantification of Monocyte Chemotactic Activity In Vivo and Characterization of Blood Monocyte Derived Macrophages
Published on: August 12, 2019
Relationship between macrophage differentiation and the chemotactic activity toward damaged myoblast cells
Masataka Uchida1, Eri Oyanagi, Motohiko Miyachi
1Department of Health and Sports Science, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, Kurashiki, Japan.
Abstract:
We investigated the effect of macrophage differentiation on the chemotactic activity to invade local damaged myoblasts using in vitro models of muscle injury. We found that: 1) the chemotactic activity of macrophages toward areas of damaged myoblasts might be induced more by live myoblasts than dead ones, 2) the chemotactic activity of macrophages is not due to velocity, but depends on the directionality toward damaged myoblast cells, and 3) macrophage differentiation strongly influence the chemotactic activity toward damaged myoblast cells through the expression of CCR2 and/or F-actin.

