title: The Software and Hardware of Macrophages: A Diversity of Options.
abstract: Macrophages play important immune and homeostatic roles that depend on the ability to receive and interpret specific signals from environmental stimuli. Here we describe the different activation states these cells can exhibit in response to signals and how these states affect and can be affected by bacterial pathogens.
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Sciences and MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
authors.forename: Katrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kierdorf
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Sciences and MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. Electronic address: m.dionne@imperial.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Marc S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Dionne
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D006706:Homeostasis / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007113:Immunity, Innate / Q000276:immunology*; D008264:Macrophages / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology