Nature Communications (Jan 2016)
Bone marrow-derived monocytes give rise to self-renewing and fully differentiated Kupffer cells
Abstract
Tissue-resident macrophages are mostly derived from embryonic progenitors. Scott et al. develop a mouse model to specifically deplete Kupffer cells (KC) in vivoand show that monocyte-derived cells can repopulate KC niche and behave similar to their embryonically-derived counterparts.