The generation, activation, and polarization of monocyte-derived macrophages in human malignancies

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Title: The generation, activation, and polarization of monocyte-derived macrophages in human malignancies
Authors: Paul Chaintreuil, Emeline Kerreneur, Maxence Bourgoin, Coline Savy, Cécile Favreau, Guillaume Robert, Arnaud Jacquel, Patrick Auberger
Source: Frontiers in Immunology, Vol 14 (2023)
Publisher Information: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023.
Publication Year: 2023
Collection: LCC:Immunologic diseases. Allergy
Subject Terms: monocyte-derived macrophages, CSF-1, differentiation, polarization, TAM, LAM, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607
More Details: Macrophages are immune cells that originate from embryogenesis or from the differentiation of monocytes. They can adopt numerous phenotypes depending on their origin, tissue distribution and in response to different stimuli and tissue environment. Thus, in vivo, macrophages are endowed with a continuum of phenotypes that are rarely strictly pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory and exhibit a broad expression profile that sweeps over the whole polarization spectrum. Schematically, three main macrophage subpopulations coexist in human tissues: naïve macrophages also called M0, pro-inflammatory macrophages referred as M1 macrophages, and anti-inflammatory macrophages also known as M2 macrophages. Naïve macrophages display phagocytic functions, recognize pathogenic agents, and rapidly undergo polarization towards pro or anti-inflammatory macrophages to acquire their full panel of functions. Pro-inflammatory macrophages are widely involved in inflammatory response, during which they exert anti-microbial and anti-tumoral functions. By contrast, anti-inflammatory macrophages are implicated in the resolution of inflammation, the phagocytosis of cell debris and tissue reparation following injuries. Macrophages also play important deleterious or beneficial roles in the initiation and progression of different pathophysiological settings including solid and hematopoietic cancers. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in the generation, activation and polarization of macrophages is a prerequisite for the development of new therapeutic strategies to modulate macrophages functions in pathological situations.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 1664-3224
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1178337/full; https://doaj.org/toc/1664-3224
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1178337
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/f5d1ea3aaa86476ab6e66bd573b42a17
Accession Number: edsdoj.f5d1ea3aaa86476ab6e66bd573b42a17
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:16643224
DOI:10.3389/fimmu.2023.1178337
Published in:Frontiers in Immunology
Language:English