lipid-associated macrophage
lipid-associated macrophage
"A tissue-resident macrophage that is associated with lipids. This cell responsible of anti-inflammatory functions, lipid accumulation and enhancing phagocytosis (Wculek et al., 2022, Liu et al., 2022). In mice and humans, a lipid-associated macrophage is characterized by the marker Trem2 (Jaitlin et al., 2019)."