Metabolism Supports Macrophage Activation

Macrophages are found in most tissues of the body, where they have tissue- and context-dependent roles in maintaining homeostasis as well as coordinating adaptive responses to a variety of stresses. Their capacity for specialized functions is controlled by polarizing signals, which activate (or polarize) macrophages by upregulating transcriptional programs that encode distinct effector functions. An important conceptual advance in the field of...