The Role of Lung Macrophages in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Overview

Journal Inflamm Res

Specialties Allergy & Immunology
Pathology

Date 2022 Oct 20

PMID 36264361

Authors

Wenpei Dang

Yiming Tao

Xinxin Xu

Hui Zhao

Lijuan Zou

Yongsheng Li

Affiliations

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Abstract

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an acute and diffuse inflammatory lung injury in a short time, one of the common severe manifestations of the respiratory system that endangers human life and health. As an innate immune cell, macrophages play a key role in the inflammatory response. For a long time, the role of pulmonary macrophages in ARDS has tended to revolve around the polarization of M1/M2. However, with the development of single-cell RNA sequencing, fate mapping, metabolomics, and other new technologies, a deeper understanding of the development process, classification, and function of macrophages in the lung are acquired. Here, we discuss the function of pulmonary macrophages in ARDS from the two dimensions of anatomical location and cell origin and describe the effects of cell metabolism and intercellular interaction on the function of macrophages. Besides, we explore the treatments for targeting macrophages, such as enhancing macrophage phagocytosis, regulating macrophage recruitment, and macrophage death. Considering the differences in responsiveness of different research groups to these treatments and the tremendous dynamic changes in the gene expression of monocyte/macrophage, we discussed the possibility of characterizing the gene expression of monocyte/macrophage as the biomarkers. We hope that this review will provide new insight into pulmonary macrophage function and therapeutic targets of ARDS.

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