Initially mistaken for neutrophils, a population of atypical macrophages appears in the lungs after severe viral infection, orchestrates tissue repair, and then vanishes. Rebecca Roberts is a science ...

Macrophages are critical for this process ... “COVID-19 can leave the lungs unable to heal properly by damaging these tiny structures inside our cells,” Sun said. The team determined that ...

When they administered the modified macrophages into the lungs of mice via the trachea, they saw reduced inflammation caused by hypoxia, and monocyte recruitment was halted. Four weeks after ...

Increased numbers of macrophages produce LTB4 ... These processes make it difficult to pump blood from the heart to the lungs and result in the high pressures observed in pulmonary hypertension.

After discovering that two proteins in macrophages—YAP and TAZ—are involved in heart scarring, researchers from the School sought to determine whether these proteins play a similar role in the lungs ...