Macrophages Proliferation in the Lungs (IMAGE)
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Influenza infections are characterized by massive influx of monocytes/macrophages in the lungs. Although it is required to eliminate the virus, excessive inflammation contributes to the severity of the disease.
In this picture, they identified a fraction of inflammatory monocytes/macrophages (in green) that proliferates in the lungs (proliferation marker in red) in absence of LTB4 signaling, contributing to the inflammation. Nuclei are stained in blue.
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Erwan Pernet, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
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