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SUBMITTER: Lee SH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7385908 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Sang Hun SH Chaves Mariana M MM Kamenyeva Olena O Gazzinelli-Guimaraes Pedro H PH Kang Byunghyun B Pessenda Gabriela G Passelli Katiuska K Tacchini-Cottier Fabienne F Kabat Juraj J Jacobsen Elizabeth A EA Nutman Thomas B TB Sacks David L DL
Science immunology 20200401 46
Tissue-resident macrophages (TRMs) maintain tissue homeostasis, but they can also provide a replicative niche for intracellular pathogens such as <i>Leishmania</i> How dermal TRMs proliferate and maintain their M2 properties even in the strong T<sub>H</sub>1 environment of the <i>L. major</i> infected dermis is not clear. Here, we show that, in infected mice lacking IL-4/13 from eosinophils, dermal TRMs shifted to a proinflammatory state, their numbers declined, and disease was attenuated. Intra ...[more]