Novel transcription regulators of tissue macrophages and alternative macrophage polarization
- Autores: Laura Higuera González
- Directores de la Tesis: José Francisco Aramburu Beltrán (dir. tes.), Cristina López Rodríguez (codir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( España ) en 2021
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Mercedes Ricote Pacheco (presid.), Annabel Fernández Valledor (secret.), Carlos Arturo Muñoz Minutti (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Biomedicina por la Universidad Pompeu Fabra
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
Macrophages play crucial roles in the defense of the organism against a wide range of pathogens. Macrophages can rapidly adapt to perturbations in the microenvironment due to the existence of a network of transcription factors that modulates their responses. While transcription factors that regulate macrophage identity have been widely described in the past decades, the role of transcription regulators that fine-tune tissue macrophage responses in homeostasis and infection is starting to be elucidated.
Our group has previously identified transcription regulators of pro-inflammatory macrophage responses, and in the present work we have explored the function of novel transcription mechanisms that participate in the regulation of the homeostatic distribution of tissue macrophages and in anti-inflammatory macrophage responses. We have studied ontogenically different macrophage populations inhabiting different tissues and have characterized their transcription regulation. We have also compared the anti-inflammatory response of tissue macrophages and identified a specific transcriptional control of anti-inflammatory gene expression that depends on their ontogeny.
