More information: Emily M. King et al, Gpnmb and Spp1 mark a conserved macrophage injury response masking fibrosis-specific programming in the lung, JCI Insight (2024). DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.182700 ...

Initially mistaken for neutrophils, a population of atypical macrophages appears in the lungs after severe viral infection, orchestrates tissue repair, and then vanishes. Rebecca Roberts is a science ...

DENVER — Researchers at National Jewish Health and colleagues have completed the first study comparing lung macrophages in multiple models of lung injury. The research indicates that macrophages ...

Stefan Ivanov, Lung Immunology & Pharmacology Groups ... to the accumulation of macrophages in the bronchoalveolar space. IL-17-producing CD4 cells, termed T helper (Th)-17 cells, are functionally ...

Consistent with lung surfactant build up in the children’s lungs and the monocyte migration impairment, the researchers found a decreased number of alveolar macrophages in their patients’ ...

London, A team of Swedish researchers has revealed how different kinds of immune cells, called macrophages, develop in the lungs, and which of them may be behind severe lung diseases, a discovery ...

Our bodies have a defence against such invaders – cells called macrophages which can ‘eat up’ these particles and clear them out of our lungs again. The problem is keeping PM levels low ...

Increased numbers of macrophages produce LTB4 ... These processes make it difficult to pump blood from the heart to the lungs and result in the high pressures observed in pulmonary hypertension.