macrophages

[Scientific Reports] Researchers investigated the roles of individual cell types involved in burn wound healing following photobiomodulation (PBM) treatments and noted discrete effects on epithelieum, fibroblasts, and macrophage functions.

[Scientific Reports] Ferroportin downregulation in hepatic cells increased the levels of the M2 markers CD206, TGF- β, VEGF, MMP-9, Laminin, Collagen, IL-4 and IL-10.

[Journal of Bone and Mineral Research] Scientists provided evidence of the in vivo function of MMP-10 during endochondral ossification and defined the macrophages as the lead cell population in cartilage removal and vascular invasion.

[Circulation Research] Scientists generated transgenic (Tg) rabbits with smooth muscle cell-specific PGC1α overexpression and showed that these rabbits developed significantly less aortic atherosclerosis than their non-Tg littermates after high-cholesterol diet feeding, while total plasma cholesterol levels were similar.

[npj Breast Cancer] Using a novel approach in estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) and negative breast cancer, researchers identified perinuclear-localized expression of STING in ER+ cases as an independent predictor of good prognosis, associated with immune cell infiltration and upregulation of immune checkpoints.

[Scientific Reports] Scientists characterized the immune processes induced by the epithelium after urban particulate matter exposure in special regard to interactions with monocyte-derived dendritic cells and monocyte-derived macrophages in obstructive lung diseases.