Sodium-activated macrophages: the salt mine expands
High sodium consumption has been raising interest as a putative environmental factor linking Western lifestyle to the growing epidemic of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.Now Zhang and colleagues show that high sodium drives macrophage to acquire a new proinflammatory effector phenotype with a distinct signature,paving the path to assess the role of salt-activated macrophages in human disease.
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2015-09-24(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
885-886