Harvesting murine alveolar macrophages and evaluating cellular activation induced by polyanhydride nanoparticles

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 64, 2012, Pages

  Chavez Santoscoy, Ana V ^a   Huntimer, Lucas M ^a   Ramer Tait, Amanda E ^a   Wannemuehler, Michael ^a   Narasimhan, Balaji ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation; Alveolar macrophages; AM; Bioengineering; Harvesting; Issue 64; Lung lavage; Microbiology; Nanoparticles; Polyanhydride

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863799466     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3883     Document Type: Article

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