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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2013

Toward a refined definition of monocyte subsets.

Loems Ziegler-Heitbrock, Thomas P J Hofer

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 164 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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164 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Loems Ziegler-HeitbrockComprehensive Pneumology Center - EvA Study Center, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen - German Research Center for Environmental Health Gauting, Germany.
Thomas P J Hofer

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a nomenclature proposal published in 2010 monocytes were subdivided into classical and non-classical cells and in addition an intermediate monocyte subset was proposed. Over the last couple of years many studies have analyzed these intermediate cells, their characteristics have been described, and their expansion has been documented in many clinical settings. While these cells appear to be in transition from classical to non-classical monocytes and hence may not form a distinct cell population in a strict sense, their separate analysis and enumeration is warranted in health and disease.

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classical monocytesintermediate monocytesmonocyte classificationmonocyte subsetsnon-classical monocytes

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PMID23382732
PMCPMC3562996

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