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SUBMITTER: Barreiro O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4961461 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barreiro Olga O Cibrian Danay D Clemente Cristina C Alvarez David D Moreno Vanessa V Valiente Íñigo Í Bernad Antonio A Vestweber Dietmar D Arroyo Alicia G AG Martín Pilar P von Andrian Ulrich H UH Sánchez Madrid Francisco F
eLife 20160615
Heterogeneity and functional specialization among skin-resident macrophages are incompletely understood. In this study, we describe a novel subset of murine dermal perivascular macrophages that extend protrusions across the endothelial junctions in steady-state and capture blood-borne macromolecules. Unlike other skin-resident macrophages that are reconstituted by bone marrow-derived progenitors after a genotoxic insult, these cells are replenished by an extramedullary radio-resistant and UV-sen ...[more]