Episode 52 - Close to the squeezey part

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In this paper, Matt and Kevin discuss a new paper identifying and describing a new kind of macrophage (or is it a dendritic cell?) they call “adenophages”. The cells live in salivary and other exocrine glands, and are really good at phagocytosis and antigen presentation. But they also help squeeze out spit?

Links

• The Paper: Adenophages are an atypical macrophage population in exocrine glands sustained by ILC2-derived GM-CSF

• Wikipedia article on salivary glands

Darwin sketch of phylogeny, “I think…”