Metabolism via arginase or nitric oxide synthase: two competing arginine pathways in macrophages

Macrophages play a major role in the immune system, both as antimicrobial effector cells and as immunoregulatory cells, which induce, suppress or modulate adaptive immune responses. These key aspects of macrophage biology are fundamentally driven by the phenotype of macrophage arginine metabolism th...

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Main Authors: Meera eRath, Ingrid eMüller, Pascale eKropf, Ellen I Closs, Markus eMunder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2014.00532/full