Tissue-specific macrophages: how they develop and choreograph tissue biology

E Mass, F Nimmerjahn, K Kierdorf… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Macrophages are innate immune cells that form a 3D network in all our tissues, where they
phagocytose dying cells and cell debris, immune complexes, bacteria and other waste …

Metabolism of tissue macrophages in homeostasis and pathology

SK Wculek, G Dunphy, I Heras-Murillo… - Cellular & molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Cellular metabolism orchestrates the intricate use of tissue fuels for catabolism and
anabolism to generate cellular energy and structural components. The emerging field of …

Function of macrophages in disease: current understanding on molecular mechanisms

C Zhang, M Yang, AC Ericsson - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tissue-resident macrophages (TRMs) are heterogeneous populations originating either
from monocytes or embryonic progenitors, and distribute in lymphoid and non-lymphoid …

Large-scale integration of single-cell transcriptomic data captures transitional progenitor states in mouse skeletal muscle regeneration

DW McKellar, LD Walter, LT Song, M Mantri… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Skeletal muscle repair is driven by the coordinated self-renewal and fusion of myogenic
stem and progenitor cells. Single-cell gene expression analyses of myogenesis have been …

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics identify a macrophage population associated with skeletal muscle fibrosis

G Coulis, D Jaime, C Guerrero-Juarez… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Macrophages are essential for skeletal muscle homeostasis, but how their dysregulation
contributes to the development of fibrosis in muscle disease remains unclear. Here, we used …

The many roles of macrophages in skeletal muscle injury and repair

X Wang, L Zhou - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Skeletal muscle is essential to physical activity and energy metabolism. Maintaining intact
functions of skeletal muscle is crucial to health and wellbeing. Evolutionarily, skeletal muscle …

Single-cell analysis of skeletal muscle macrophages reveals age-associated functional subpopulations

LK Krasniewski, P Chakraborty, CY Cui… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Tissue-resident macrophages represent a group of highly responsive innate immune cells
that acquire diverse functions by polarizing toward distinct subpopulations. The …

Metabolic reprogramming of skeletal muscle by resident macrophages points to CSF1R inhibitors as muscular dystrophy therapeutics

F Babaeijandaghi, R Cheng, N Kajabadi… - Science Translational …, 2022 - science.org
The role of tissue-resident macrophages during tissue regeneration or fibrosis is not well
understood, mainly due to the lack of a specific marker for their identification. Here, we …

Cellular interplay in skeletal muscle regeneration and wasting: insights from animal models

P Henrot, L Blervaque, I Dupin… - Journal of Cachexia …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Skeletal muscle wasting, whether related to physiological ageing, muscle disuse or to an
underlying chronic disease, is a key determinant to quality of life and mortality. However …

A transgenic line that reports CSF1R protein expression provides a definitive marker for the mouse mononuclear phagocyte system

K Grabert, A Sehgal, KM Irvine… - The Journal of …, 2020 - journals.aai.org
The proliferation, differentiation, and survival of cells of the mononuclear phagocyte system
(MPS; progenitors, monocytes, macrophages, and classical dendritic cells) are controlled by …