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Thomas A Wynn1, Ajay Chawla, Jeffrey W Pollard

  • 1Immunopathogenesis Section, Program in Tissue Immunity and Repair and Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20877-8003, USA. twynn@niaid.nih.gov

Nature
|April 27, 2013
PubMed
まとめ

マクロファージは,組織修復とホメオスタシスに不可欠な多機能免疫細胞です. 制御不能な機能がそれらを様々なヒトの病気と治療目標と結びつけるため,それらの多様な役割と可塑性を理解することは極めて重要です.

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