Lung macrophages and dendritic cells in health and disease

Lung Macrophages and Dendritic Cells in Health and Disease introduces pulmonary intravascular macrophages (PIMs), covering their structural function and role in the pathogenesis of acute lung injury...discusses the ontogeny of DCs, summarizing the latest studies on specialized phenotypes and the function of DCs in the lung vasculature, alveolar spaces, airway epithelium, and lung parenchyma...focuses on the recruitment and activation of macrophages during a T-cell-mediated immune response to pulmonary infection, using the murine pulmonary cryptococcosis model...considers the interaction of Pneumocytis carinii with alveolar macrophages...and more.