Alveolar Macrophages Are a Major Determinant of Early Responses to Viral Lung Infection but Do Not Influence Subsequent Disease Development
- 1 May 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Virology
- Vol. 82 (9) , 4441-4448
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.02541-07
Abstract
Macrophages are abundant in the lower respiratory tract. They play a central role in the innate response to infection but may also modulate excessive inflammation. Both macrophages and cil...Keywords
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