Alveolar macrophages (IMAGE)

Technische Universität Dresden

Alveolar macrophages

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Alveolar macrophages are the immune cells that specifically live in the lung air sacs, here visible as red dots in an otherwise transparent mouse lung.

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Sara Gholamhosseinian Najjar and Michaela Burkon

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