05 December 2023
Shaped by Context
Macrophages – Greek for 'big eaters' – white blood cells of the immune system that engulf and dispose of eg. debris, pathogens and cancer cells, can fuse into giant cells and 'reprogram' function depending on their microenvironment
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- Image from work by Kourosh Ahmadzadeh and Marie Pereira and, colleagues
- Laboratory of Immunobiology, Department Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, KU Leuven—University of Leuven, Belgium; Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College London, UK
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in EMBO Reports, January 2023
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