Arainga M

No ORCID on file · 1 paper in corpus

2014

In vivo characterization of alveolar and interstitial lung macrophages in rhesus macaques: implications for understanding lung disease in humans.

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) ·doi:10.4049/jimmunol.1302269

Alveolar macrophages (AMs) obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) are commonly used to study lung macrophage-mediated immune responses. Questions remain, however, about whether AMs fully represent macrophage function in the lung. This stu…