Peter Wieghofer, Nora Hagemeyer, Roman Sankowski, Anja Schlecht, Ori Staszewski, Lukas Amann, Markus Gruber, Jana Koch, Annika Hausmann, Peipei Zhang, Stefaniya Boneva, Takahiro Masuda, Ingo Hilgendorf, Tobias Goldmann, Chotima Böttcher, Josef Priller, Fabio Mv Rossi, Clemens Lange, Marco Prinz
Similar to the brain, the eye is considered an immune-privileged organ where tissue-resident macrophages provide the major immune cell constituents. However, little is known about spatially restricted macrophage subsets within different eye compartments with regard to their origin, function, and fate during health and disease. Here, we combined single-cell analysis, fate mapping, parabiosis, and computational modeling to comprehensively examine myeloid subsets in distinct parts of the eye during homeostasis...
February 8, 2021: EMBO Journal