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Tissue-Resident Macrophages Self-Maintain Locally throughout Adult Life with Minimal Contribution from Circulating Monocytes

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Hashimoto, Daigo, Chow, Andrew, Noizat, Clara, Teo, Pearline, Beasley, Mary Beth, Leboeuf, Marylene, Becker, Christian D., See, Peter +13 more·2013·Immunity

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Despite accumulating evidence suggesting local self-maintenance of tissue macrophages in the steady state, the dogma remains that tissue macrophages derive from monocytes. Using parabiosis and fate-mapping approaches, we confirmed that monocytes do not show significant contribution to tissue macrophages in the steady state. Similarly, we found that after depletion of lung macrophages, the majority of repopulation occurred by stochastic cellular proliferation in situ in a macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-Csf)- and granulocyte macrophage (GM)-CSF-dependent manner but independently of interleukin-4. We also found that after bone marrow transplantation, host macrophages retained the capacity to expand when the development of donor macrophages was compromised. Expansion of host macrophages was functional and prevented the development of alveolar proteinosis in mice transplanted with GM-Csf-receptor-deficient progenitors. Collectively, these results indicate that tissue-resident macrophages and circulating monocytes should be classified as mononuclear phagocyte lineages that are independently maintained in the steady state.

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  • The normal arterial intima of mice and humans contains tissue-resident macrophages derived from embryonic precursors and from bone-marrow-derived monocytes after birth.

    “In addition, the normal arterial intima of mice and humans, like any tissue of the mammalian body, contains tissue-resident macrophages, which arise from embryonic precursors and from bone-marrow-derived circulating monocytes immediately after birth144.”
  • These tissue-resident macrophages self-renew and perform homeostatic and physiological tissue functions.

    “These macrophages self-renew and fulfil homeostatic and physiological functions in the tissue concerned144.”
  • Macrophage progenitors develop from the primitive ectoderm of the yolk sac and give rise to tissue macrophages that do not have a monocytic progenitor.

    “Our findings are consistent with reports that macrophage progenitors develop from the primitive ectoderm of the yolk sac4 and give rise to tissue macrophages that do not have a monocytic progenitor16,17.”

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Hashimoto, D., Chow, A., Noizat, C., Teo, P., Beasley, M. B., Leboeuf, M., Becker, C. D., See, P., Price, J., Lucas, D., Greter, M., Mortha, A., Boyer, S. W., Forsberg, E. C., Tanaka, M., van Rooijen, N., García-Sastre, A., Stanley, E. R., Ginhoux, F., Frenette, P. S., & Merad, M.
Affiliations
  • Tisch Cancer Institute (US)
  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine (US)
  • Agency for Science, Technology and Research (SG)
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • University of Zurich (CH)
  • University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
  • Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences (JP)
Venue
Immunity
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-04
Volume
38
Issue
4
Pages
792-804
ISSN
1074-7613 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1973433801
Cited by
2,311
References
49
Citations by year
2026: 132 · 2025: 151 · 2024: 158 · 2023: 168 · 2022: 204 · 2021: 211 · 2020: 219 · 2019: 185 · 2018: 179 · 2017: 188 · 2016: 152 · 2015: 155 · 2014: 148 · 2013: 47 · 2012: 2
FWCI
92.47
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Immunity (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Pure Amsterdam UMC (publishedVersion)
  • Amsterdam UMC (VU Amsterdam) - Institutional Repository (publishedVersion)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (acceptedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
Funders
  • California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
  • California Institute of Regenerative Medicine
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (23390095)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL097700, HL069438, R01HL116340, R01HL086899, R01HL097700, F30HL099028, R01HL069438, HL116340)
  • National Cancer Institute (CA154947A, R01CA173861, R01CA154947)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM008646)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (AI 089987, U19AI089987, AI10008)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK056638, DK056638)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune cells in cancer
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases
Keywords
tissue-resident macrophages, macrophage self-renewal, monocytes, lung macrophages, macrophage colony-stimulating factor, GM-CSF, IL-4, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, bone marrow transplantation, parabiosis, fate mapping
MeSH terms
Adult, Animals, Cell Survival, Cells, Cultured, Homeostasis, Humans, Lung, Macrophages, Mice, Mutant Strains, Parabiosis, Interleukin-4, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor, Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor, Receptors, Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor, Mice, Knockout, Cell Proliferation, Mice

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