Play It Again, SAM: Macrophages Control Peripheral Fat Metabolism

Publication date: Available online 28 December 2017
Source:Trends in Immunology
Author(s): Kevin A. Guttenplan, Shane A. Liddelow
Macrophages and other immune cells are increasingly recognized to have unique and nontraditional functions in various tissues of the body. In a recent issue of Nature Medicine, Pirzgalska et al. [1] characterized a unique set of tissue-specialized macrophages that modulate the connection between the nervous system and subcutaneous fat.



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