title: Setting the table for macrophages.
abstract: In this issue of Blood, Das et al assign a very novel and unanticipated function to plasminogen by showing that it is an enhancer of the phagocytic function of macrophages.
authors.affiliation: THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE;
authors.forename: Lindsey A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Miles
authors.affiliation: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO; AND VETERANS ADMINISTRATION SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Parmer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007728:Kupffer Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D017737:Macrophages, Peritoneal / Q000378:metabolism*; D010587:Phagocytosis / Q000502:physiology*; D010958:Plasminogen / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D010958:Plasminogen
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