Maria Viola

@mariafviola.bsky.social

Wanderer and macrophage enthusiast, working in Bonn @masslab !

Not ✨macrophages✨ but a characterisation of a rather elusive cell type in the human colon : mast cells! Congrats @hindhussein.bsky.social , I've been looking forward to this !

Hind Hussein, PhD@hindhussein.bsky.social · 2y ago

Intro time! I'm Hind, a mucosal #immunologist working in KU Leuven on mast cells in health and in gut disease. Speaking of, I can finally show what I have been working on for the last 4 years, ie characterizing human mast cells in layers of the colon via scRNAseq www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

As my blatant tour of self-promotion continues.. macrophages are so much more than just cells that eat things! Yet, even the eating can be very cool. Here, we showed that macrophages in gut shape the nervous system, and this makes 💩 happen correctly in adulthood: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dedicated macrophages organize and maintain the enteric nervous system - Nature

Resident macrophages of the muscularis externa refine the enteric nervous system (ENS) early in life by pruning synapses and phagocytosing enteric neurons, and later switch to a neuro-supportive funct...

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