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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 188, Issue 7, Pages 3382-3394Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1102649
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/G004013/1]
- Fulbright fellowship
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/D/20231759, BBS/E/D/20310000, BBS/E/D/20211552, BB/G004013/1, BBS/E/R/00001620] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MR/K001744/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BBS/E/D/20231759, BBS/E/D/20211552, BBS/E/R/00001620, BB/G004013/1, BBS/E/D/20310000] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [MR/K001744/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Mouse bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDM) grown in M-CSF (CSF-1) have been used widely in studies of macrophage biology and the response to TLR agonists. We investigated whether similar cells could be derived from the domestic pig using human rCSF-1 and whether porcine macrophages might represent a better model of human macrophage biology. Cultivation of pig bone marrow cells for 5-7 d in presence of human rCSF-1 generated a pure population of BMDM that expressed the usual macrophage markers (CD14, CD16, and CD172a), were potent phagocytic cells, and produced TNF in response to LPS. Pig BMDM could be generated from bone marrow cells that had been stored frozen and thawed so that multiple experiments can be performed on samples from a single animal. Gene expression in pig BMDM from outbred animals responding to LPS was profiled using Affymetrix microarrays. The temporal cascade of inducible and repressible genes more closely resembled the known responses of human than mouse macrophages, sharing with humans the regulation of genes involved in tryptophan metabolism (IDO, KYN), lymphoattractant chemokines (CCL20, CXCL9, CXCL11, CXCL13), and the vitamin D3-converting enzyme, Cyp27B1. Conversely, in common with published studies of human macrophages, pig BMDM did not strongly induce genes involved in arginine metabolism, nor did they produce NO. These results establish pig BMDM as an alternative tractable model for the study of macrophage transcriptional control. The Journal of Immunology, 2012, 188: 3382-3394.
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