Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Bone marrow-derived monocytes give rise to self-renewing and fully differentiated Kupffer cells

  • Charlotte L. Scott,
  • Fang Zheng,
  • Patrick De Baetselier,
  • Liesbet Martens,
  • Yvan Saeys,
  • Sofie De Prijck,
  • Saskia Lippens,
  • Chloé Abels,
  • Steve Schoonooghe,
  • Geert Raes,
  • Nick Devoogdt,
  • Bart N. Lambrecht,
  • Alain Beschin,
  • Martin Guilliams

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10321
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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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.