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Editorial
. 2022 Aug;67(2):150-152.
doi: 10.1165/rcmb.2022-0160ED.

Alveolar Macrophage Heterogeneity Goes up in Smoke?

Mohammadreza Tabary  1   2 , Janet S Lee  1   2
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Editorial

Alveolar Macrophage Heterogeneity Goes up in Smoke?

Mohammadreza Tabary et al. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2022 Aug.
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Figure 1.
Overview of the experimental approach and findings in the alveolar macrophage (AM) pool (2). The identity and heterogeneity of alveolar macrophages were assessed among healthy nonsmokers, non-COPD smokers, and COPD smokers using a combination of approaches, including flow cytometry and bulk and single-cell RNA-seq of BAL cells. Illustration created with BioRender.com. AFHi = autofluorescenthi; AFLo = autofluorescentlow; COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; FACS = fluorescence-activated cell sorting; sc-RNA Seq = small conditional RNA sequencing.
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