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Isolation and In Vitro Culture of Murine and Human Alveolar Macrophages
Published on: April 20, 2018
Gut microbe guides alveolar macrophages to fight flu
Tao Wang1, Yanling Wang1, Yushi Yao2
1Institute of Immunology and Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.
Abstract:
The intestinal microbiota is associated with defense against respiratory viral infections. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Ngo and colleagues1 show that intestinal commensal segmented filamentous bacteria reprogram alveolar macrophages with improved influenza-viral-neutralizing and phagocytic functions while maintaining inflammatory anergy to better protect the lung.
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