This review highlights known cardiac and pericardial macrophage populations, their functions in homeostasis and pathophysiology, and the experimental tools used to evaluate them.
This review summarizes the current understanding of cardiac and pericardial macrophage subpopulations and their roles in cardiac homeostasis and pathophysiology.
Cardiac and pericardial macrophages contribute to both homeostatic and pathophysiological processes. Recent advances have identified a vast repertoire of these macrophage populations in and around the heart - broadly categorized into a CCR2 + /CCR2 - dichotomy. While these unique populations can be further distinguished by origin, localization, and other cell surface markers, further exploration into the role of cardiac and pericardial macrophage subpopulations in disease contributes an additional layer of complexity. As such, novel transgenic models and exogenous targeting techniques have been employed to evaluate these macrophages. In this review, we highlight known cardiac and pericardial macrophage populations, their functions, and the experimental tools used to bolster our knowledge of these cells in the cardiac context.
Isidoro et al. (Tue,) conducted a review in Cardiac homeostasis and pathophysiology. Cardiac and pericardial macrophage populations was evaluated. This review highlights known cardiac and pericardial macrophage populations, their functions in homeostasis and pathophysiology, and the experimental tools used to evaluate them.