title: Secretory products of macrophages:  twenty-five years on.
abstract: No longer do scientists look down on macrophages as "garbage men" that act "nonspecifically." Last fall's Nobel Prizes honored two of the few scientists who studied macrophages three decades ago. Now perhaps thousands do, and the subtypes they describe reflect ongoing discoveries of macrophages' extraordinary plasticity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10065, USA. cnathan@med.cornell.edu
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nathan
mesh_terms: D000486:Allergy and Immunology / Q000266:history*; D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research; D003545:Cysteine / Q000737:chemistry; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008262:Macrophage Activation; D008264:Macrophages / Q000145:classification / Q000378:metabolism*; D018448:Models, Immunological; D009518:New York; D009613:Nobel Prize; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*; D026361:Reactive Nitrogen Species / Q000276:immunology; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000276:immunology; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D026361:Reactive Nitrogen Species; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species; D003545:Cysteine