Browsing Clinical Medicine (Theses and Dissertations) by Subject "Macrophage"
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Immunometabolic responses of adult and umbilical cord macrophages to stimulation with Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Lipopolysaccharide
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2022)Tuberculosis (TB) has been the biggest infectious killer in the world in the last decade and young children are among the most vulnerable groups. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacteria that causes TB, is phagocytosed ... -
Macrophage immunometabolism in the host response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2017)Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious disease killer in the world, alongside HIV. Our understanding of the complex host immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) remains incomplete, but varied clinical ... -
Macrophages are critical drivers of synovial inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2020)Macrophages are an exquisitely plastic pool of innate cells critically involved in directing the immune response in RA. Upon entry into the synovium, peripheral blood monocytes differentiate into the dichotomous M1 ...