The Role of Human and Animal Monocytes and Macrophages in Homeostasis and Disease

Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Nov 16;24(22):16397. doi: 10.3390/ijms242216397.

Malgorzata Kloc^{1

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3}, Jacek Z Kubiak^{4

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¹ The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Transplant Immunology, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
² The Houston Methodist Hospital, Department of Surgery, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
³ MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Genetics, The University of Texas, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
⁴ Laboratory of Molecular Oncology and Innovative Therapies, Military Institute of Medicine-National Research Institute (WIM-PIB), Szaserow 128, 04-141 Warsaw, Poland.
⁵ Dynamics and Mechanics of Epithelia Group, Institute of Genetics and Development of Rennes, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rennes, CNRS, UMR 6290, 35043 Rennes, France.

Abstract

Monocytes and macrophages are the innate immune cells that are the first-line responders to invading pathogens or foreign objects[...].