Monocyte and Macrophage (IMAGE)

La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Monocyte and Macrophage

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Selectively inactivating a molecular switch that turns on the gene Nr4a1 in monocytes but not macrophages leads to the loss of patrolling monocytes, which play an important role in suppressing lung metastasis in lung cancer.

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