"Cloaking" on Time: A Cover-Up Act by Resident Tissue Macrophages.

Blériot, Camille; Ng, Lai Guan; Ginhoux, Florent · Cell · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

In this issue of Cell, Uderhardt et al. employed intravital two-photon microscopy to examine tissue-resident macrophage responses to sterile cellular injuries of variable size. They observed that while multi-cell "macrolesions" are characteristically pro-inflammatory, resident macrophages can "cloak" single-cell microlesions to prevent excessive neutrophil recruitment and limit subsequent tissue damage.

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