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Under the heading of "Role in specific immunity" it mentions that it is the TH1 response which promotes the humoral response (B cell maturation). Last time I checked it was the TH2 response which is capable of this. The TH1 response actually inhibits B cells from maturing and producing antibodies.

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[edit] Cleanup!

This isn't coherent at all. - Cymydog Naakka 11:22, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] But what are they?

Is each macrophage a white blood cell? -- postglock 15:52, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Answer: YES

[edit] Pronunciation?

What is the proper pronunciation of "macrophage"? I have heard it pronounced as "macro-phayge" as well as "macro-phawge". Is the difference regional, or simply in error?

The former is the most common by far. JFW | T@lk 00:27, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Feel free to add IPA pronunciation to the article, I don't know how to do it myself. --Obli (Talk)? 00:33, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Macrophage division...???

What i know is that macrophages are of no division...

but this link :

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2836521&dopt=Abstract

from public medicine...shows the opposite.

please if you have updated informations support me with 'em

Mohammad Abul-wafa

[edit] Image caption

I don't know much about the projection of macrophages, but is that macrophage actually trying to get two particles in one go? The directions of the "arms" looks more like it is focussing on the one "straight in front". // habj 10:40, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "A Series of changes"

-There is not enough information about the maturation process from monocyte to macrophage. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Owz182 (talk • contribs) 15:36, 2 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] need abbreviations that professors use for macrophages

Isn't there a couple accepted abbreviations for macrophages? like M(then a greek letter?). What are they? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.151.241.4 (talk) 01:18, 3 February 2007 (UTC).

-MΦ - the greek letter is a 'phi' and is used as an abbrevation for 'phage' --Sarah Morwood 20:49, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A note about the videos

There appears to be a bug (reported) in the Wikimedia Player that returns an error when "Watch in browser" is attempted from the link in the article. However, the Watch-in-browser (Play-in-browser) feature does appear to work from the link provided on the image description page (i.e. the "(file info)" link).--DO11.10 18:37, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request

My IRC nickname (or one of them, at least) is ANGRY_MACROPHAGE. I keep having to explain what an Angry macrophage is. Could someone please add a section to this article explaining it so I don't have to? Raul654 23:46, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ito Cells

Ito Cells are Hepatic Stellate Cells and not Kupffer cells.

[edit] Redirection from giant cells

The page for "giant cells" redirects to the page for "macrophage". I don't think this is a good idea. There are other "giant" cells in the body. Some multi-nucleate cells form as a result of disease, some form during implantation of the blastula during pregnancy; muscle cells could be considered "giant" (so could neurons). The "giant cells" page should probably be a disambiguation page instead. ajp (talk) 19:03, 8 February 2008 (UTC)