Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole and Linh Nguyen, Ph.D., MPH, (both Dental) co-authored “,” which published March 24 in the journal Clinical and Experimental Immunology. Phenotypic and functional heterogeneity of macrophages is clearly a critical component of their effective functions in innate and adaptive immunity. The investigation hypothesized that altered profiles of gene expression in gingival tissues in health, disease, and resolution would reflect changes in macrophage phenotypes occurring in these tissues.
