MafB/c-Maf Deficiency Enables Self-Renewal of Differentiated Functional Macrophages

Self-Renewing Macrophages: The capacity for self-renewal is associated with progenitor cell populations and is lost upon differentiation. Aziz et al. (p. 867 ) discovered an exception to this rule when mouse monocytes and macrophages deficient in the transcription factors MafB and c-Maf were cu…