Phenotypic diversity and emerging new tools to study macrophage activation in bacterial infectious diseases
Macrophage polarization is a concept that has been useful to describe the different features of macrophage activation related to specific functions. Macrophage polarization is responsible for a dichotomic approach (killing versus repair) of the host response to bacteria: M1-type conditions are prote...
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| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-10-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Immunology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2014.00500/full |