Bioreactor-based mass production of human iPSC-derived macrophages enables immunotherapies against bacterial airway infections

Pulmonary infections constitute a substantial health problem worldwide. Here the authors show that phagocytes similar to primitive macrophages can be generated from human induced pluripotent stem cells, by the use of industry-compatible, stirred-tank bioreactors, and applied as a cell-based therapy...

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Main Authors: Mania Ackermann, Henning Kempf, Miriam Hetzel, Christina Hesse, Anna Rafiei Hashtchin, Kerstin Brinkert, Juliane Wilhelmine Schott, Kathrin Haake, Mark Philipp Kühnel, Silke Glage, Constanca Figueiredo, Danny Jonigk, Katherina Sewald, Axel Schambach, Sabine Wronski, Thomas Moritz, Ulrich Martin, Robert Zweigerdt, Antje Munder, Nico Lachmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07570-7