Volume 34, No 3, Mar 2024

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 34 Issue 3, March 2024: 191-192

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Time and place: mapping human prenatal macrophages across tissues

Camille Wagner^1,2,* , Martin Guilliams^1,2,*

¹Laboratory of Myeloid Cell Biology in Tissue Homeostasis and Regeneration, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 71, Ghent, Belgium
²Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Correspondence: Camille Wagner(camille.wagner@ugent.be)Martin Guilliams(martin.guilliams@ugent.be)

In a recent Cell paper, Wang et al. characterized human immune cells at the single-cell level across 19 tissues and throughout prenatal developmental phases. This work revealed two new macrophage populations: microglia-like macrophages outside the central nervous system, notably in the skin where they interact with neural crest cells, and perivascular proangiogenic macrophages throughout embryonic tissues.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-023-00895-z

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