M1/M2 Macrophages: The Arginine Fork in the Road to Health and Disease

• Kaituhi matua: Charles Dudley Mills (auth)
• Ētahi atu kaituhi: Laurel L Lenz (auth), Klaus Ley (auth)
• Hōputu: Tāhiko Wāhanga pukapuka
• Reo: Ingarihi
• I whakaputaina: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Rangatū: Frontiers Research Topics
• Ngā marau: Medicine; Infection; wound; innate immunity; M1; M2; Atherosclerosis; macrophage; Cancer
• Urunga tuihono: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Macrophages have unique and diverse functions necessary for survival. And, in humans (and other species), they are the most abundant leukocytes in tissues. The Innate functions of macrophages that are best known are their unusual ability to either "Kill" or "Repair". Since killin...