Nature Communications (May 2021)

Genetic fate-mapping reveals surface accumulation but not deep organ invasion of pleural and peritoneal cavity macrophages following injury

  • Hengwei Jin,
  • Kuo Liu,
  • Juan Tang,
  • Xiuzhen Huang,
  • Haixiao Wang,
  • Qianyu Zhang,
  • Huan Zhu,
  • Yan Li,
  • Wenjuan Pu,
  • Huan Zhao,
  • Lingjuan He,
  • Yi Li,
  • Shaohua Zhang,
  • Zhenqian Zhang,
  • Yufei Zhao,
  • Yanqing Qin,
  • Stefan Pflanz,
  • Karim E. I. Kasmi,
  • Weiyi Zhang,
  • Zhaoyuan Liu,
  • Florent Ginhoux,
  • Yong Ji,
  • Ben He,
  • Lixin Wang,
  • Bin Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23197-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Body cavity macrophages reside on the serous surfaces of organs and believed to participate in organ repair following injury. Here the authors show with a fate-mapping reporter system that these cells, although accumulate at the surfaces of injured liver or lung, don’t penetrate deeply into the tissue.