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Immune 63: Immune, promptly

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The Dark Side of Macrophages in Lung Lymph Nodes

Inhaled Particulates or Particulate Accumulation with Age Impaired Immune Function and Architecture in Human Lung Lymph Nodes. There's actually specialized macrophages that are in lymph nodes that pluck things out of the lymph and bring them into the lymph nodes so that B cells can react to them. Side note, did you guys see a paper a while ago that macrophages maintain tattoos because they eat the dye and they maintain the dye? So that's kind of wild. Ah, so my second one, I called the dark side of macrophages. You have to do it experimentally, right? Yeah. Impossible to predict. People try,

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