title: Phagocytic activity of peritoneal and omental macrophages of athymic nude mice.
abstract: Phagocytosis of synthetic microspheres was determined by peritoneal macrophages and omental dendritic cells of nu/nu and nu/+ BALB/c and C57BL/10.LP mice during ontogenetic development. The macrophages of nu/nu mice phagocytized comparably to those of the nu/+ littermates till day 10 of their life. On day 25, the phagocytic activity of nu/nu mice sharply decreased but returned to normal and higher values at the age of 2 months. Omental dendritic cells showed similar ontogenetic behaviour in their ability to engulf microspheres as was found for free peritoneal macrophages.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Microbiology, Czech. Acad. Sci., Prague.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vĕtvicka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Holub
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000276:immunology; D008264:Macrophages / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude; D009852:Omentum / Q000166:cytology; D010529:Peritoneal Cavity / Q000166:cytology; D010587:Phagocytosis