Preclinical studies indicate that cavity-resident macrophages in the peritoneal and pleural spaces contribute to immunosuppression and cancer progression. While these macrophages typically accumulate ...

Spontaneous bacterial empyema is a serious infection of the fluid in your pleural cavity that can happen when you have a fluid buildup around your lungs called hepatic hydrothorax. Spontaneous ...

To develop a method to deliver mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into the pleural cavity for the treatment of pleural diseases. MSCs were isolated from rat bone marrow of rats and labeled with ...

To investigate their recruitment, Gata6-iCreER mice were crossed with Cd45-Dre and R26-tdT mice, enabling specific lineage tracing of cavity macrophages. Flow cytometry and immunofluorescence ...