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SUBMITTER: Varol C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2118434 | biostudies-other | 2007 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Varol Chen C Landsman Limor L Fogg Darin K DK Greenshtein Liat L Gildor Boaz B Margalit Raanan R Kalchenko Vyacheslav V Geissmann Frederic F Jung Steffen S
The Journal of experimental medicine 20061226 1
The mononuclear phagocyte (MP) system is a body-wide macrophage (MPhi) and dendritic cell (DC) network, which contributes to tissue homeostasis, inflammation, and immune defense. The in vivo origins of MPs remain poorly understood. Here, we use an adoptive precursor cell transfer strategy into MP-depleted mice to establish the in vivo differentiation sequence from a recently identified MPhi/DC-restricted bone marrow (BM) precursor (MDP) via BM and blood intermediates to peripheral MPhis and DCs. ...[more]