Two groups of antibodies against mouse resident alveolar and peritoneal macrophages have been raised individually in rabbits by immunization with whole cell suspensions of lavaged alveolar and peritoneal macrophages. The whole antisera reacted positively with neutrophils and lymphocytes. However, upon extensive absorptions with these cells the activity became restricted to macrophages. The...

In this paper we classify the centers and the isochronous centers of certain polynomial differential systems in R2 of degree d ≥ 5 odd that in complex notation can be written as ż = (λ+ i)z + (zz̄) d−5 2 (Az +Bzz̄ + Czz̄ +Dzz̄ + Ezz̄ + F z̄), where λ ∈ R and A,B,C,D,E, F ∈ C. Note that if d = 5 we obtain the full class of polynomial differential systems of the form a linear system with homogeneous po...

Abstract Macrophage plasticity and functional activation are critical to the broad array of macrophage-mediated functions that help determine disease outcomes. galactose-type lectin (MGL), a type-2 C-type receptor (CLR) primarily expressed on myeloid cells, has been shown play an anti-inflammatory role in innate response some infectious agents. Our lab recently demonstrated MGL-1 contributes an...

The mycobacterial ESX-1 virulence locus accelerates macrophage recruitment to the forming tuberculous granuloma. Newly recruited macrophages phagocytose previously infected apoptotic macrophages to become new bacterial growth niches. Granuloma macrophages can then necrose, releasing mycobacteria into the extracellular milieu, which potentiates their growth even further. Using zebrafish with gen...