Tumour-Associated Macrophages

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Lawrence, Toby (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hagemann, Thorsten (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

Macrophages are tissue resident phagocytes that have important roles in development and immunity. The observation that cancers become infiltrated by large numbers of macrophages was first made by Virchow in 1863, clinical and experimental studies suggest tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) are critic...