Didier ES

People living with HIV experience an earlier risk for onset of aging-related chronic inflammatory comorbidities, including cardiovascular disease. We previously showed that the proportion of macrophages was higher in the heart of older rhes…

Rhesus macaques are physiologically similar to humans and, thus, have served as useful animal models of human diseases including cardiovascular disease. The purpose of this study was to characterize the distribution, composition, and phenot…

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…