Chemotactic activity of bone marrow-derived macrophages changes with time in culture.
The number of bone marrow-derived macrophages able to respond to chemotactic stimuli varies with time in culture. Chemotactic response was optimal at 2 weeks and may depend on cell maturation or differentiation or both.
D000818:Animals; D001853:Bone Marrow; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002633:Chemotaxis; D008264:Macrophages / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H; D010587:Phagocytosis; D013997:Time Factors