The alveolar macrophage.
The pulmonary macrophagic system is critical to the defense of the lung, keeping the alveoli clean and sterile and responding on demand with an adaptive outpouring of new cells into the air sacs. Under basal conditions alveolar macrophages, in common with other mononuclear phagocytes, are derived fr...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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1984
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1568378/ |