Secretory products of macrophages: twenty-five years on.

Nathan, Carl · J Clin Invest · 2012

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Abstract

No longer do scientists look down on macrophages as "garbage men" that act "nonspecifically." Last fall's Nobel Prizes honored two of the few scientists who studied macrophages three decades ago. Now perhaps thousands do, and the subtypes they describe reflect ongoing discoveries of macrophages' extraordinary plasticity.

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