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ReviewPhysiological reviews2026

The cell with many faces: lung macrophage plasticity and function in response to environmental and pathogenic insults.

Shubham Dubey, Junaid Khan, A S Alishlash, Sadis Matalon

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Review in Physiological reviews, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Shubham DubeyDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
Junaid KhanDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
A S AlishlashDepartment of Pediatrics, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
Sadis MatalonDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0683-3700

Funding

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF SUBLETHAL OXYGEN IN INJURED LUNGSR01HL031197 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI MARK N GILLESPIE, Sadis Matalon · 1985 to 2026
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HHS | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) R01HL031197-29S1NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL031197University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) REINVENT grant from the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alveolar macrophages (AMs) are pivotal immune sentinels, essential for maintaining tissue homeostasis and mediating immune responses to inhaled particles and pathogens. They demonstrate remarkable plasticity by transitioning from proinflammatory (M1) and anti-inflammatory/reparative (M2) phenotypes in response to local signals. Upon exposure to environmental agents, such as particulate matter, atypical respiratory pathogens, opportunistic Gram-negative bacteria, or respiratory viruses, they undergo dynamic activation that profoundly influences their functional repertoire. Acute or chronic environmental/biological insults disrupt normal AM activities such as phagocytosis, efferocytosis, and cytokine production, inciting oxidative stress, inflammasome activation, and in some cases forms of programmed cell death such as pyroptosis. Although these responses are indispensable for eliminating noxious particles and pathogens, such as

Indexed as

Cell PlasticityEnvironmental ExposureLungLung DiseasesMacrophages, AlveolarAnimalsCOVID-19Humansanti-inflammatory/reparative (M2) phenotypeCOPDfibrosisphagocytosisproinflammatory (M1) phenotype

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PMID41921044
PMCPMC13134451

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