Hypoxia enhances the proliferative response of macrophages to CSF-1 and their pro-survival response to TNF.

In chronic inflammatory lesions there are increased numbers of macrophages with a possible contribution of enhanced survival/proliferation due, for example, to cytokine action; such lesions are often hypoxic. Prior studies have found that culture in low oxygen can promote monocyte/macrophage surviva...

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Main Authors: John A Hamilton, Derek C Lacey, Amanda Turner, Bernard de Kok, Jennifer Huynh, Glen M Scholz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3446916?pdf=render