M1/M2 macrophages : : the arginine fork in the road to health and disease / / topic editors Charles Dudley Mills, Laurel L. Lenzand Klaus Ley.

• Author: Charles Dudley Mills
• TeilnehmendeR: Ley, Klaus; Mills, Charles Dudley; Lenz, Laurel L.
• Place / Publishing House: Switzerland : : Frontiers Media SA,, 2015
• Año de Publicación: 2015
• Lenguaje: English
• Colección: Frontiers Research Topics
• Descripción Física: 1 online resource (280 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notas: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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 killing is a destructive p...