Abstract
The disposal of apoptotic bodies by professional phagocytes is crucial to effective inflammation resolution. Our ability to improve the disposal of apoptotic bodies by professional phagocytes is impaired by a limited understanding of the molecular mechanisms that regulate the engulfment and digestion of the efferocytic cargo. Macrophages are professional phagocytes necessary for liver inflammation, fibrosis, and resolution, switching their phenotype from proinflammatory to restorative. Using sterile liver injury models, we show that the STAT3–IL-10–IL-6 axis is a positive regulator of macrophage efferocytosis, survival, and phenotypic conversion, directly linking debris engulfment to tissue repair.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1169-1187 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Journal of Immunology |
Volume | 200 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 22 Jan 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Copyright © 2018 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc.Keywords
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- Apoptosis/immunology
- Humans
- Interleukin-10/metabolism
- Interleukin-6/metabolism
- Liver/injuries
- Liver Cirrhosis/pathology
- Macrophages/immunology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Necrosis/immunology
- Phagocytosis/immunology
- Regeneration/physiology
- STAT3 Transcription Factor/metabolism
- Zebrafish/embryology
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Professor Sir John P Iredale
- Bristol Medical School - Professor of Experimental Medicine
- Cancer
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