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SUBMITTER: Prasad A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7593787 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Prasad Ankush A Sedlářová Michaela M Balukova Anastasiia A Ovsii Alina A Rác Marek M Křupka Michal M Kasai Shigenobu S Pospíšil Pavel P
Frontiers in physiology 20201015
The U937 cell culture is a pro-monocytic, human histiocytic lymphoma cell line. These monocytes can differentiate into either macrophages or dendritic cells (antigen-presenting cells) depending on the initiators. The U937 cells activated in the presence of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) change their morphology into macrophage-like cells creating pseudopodia and adhering generously. Macrophages are known to produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) mostly during phagocytosis of foreign particl ...[more]