Editorial: The key role of Mer receptor tyrosine kinase: where inflammation ends and fibrosis begins

Front Immunol. 2023 Jul 17:14:1251577. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1251577. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Gaetano Zizzo^{1

2}, Philip L Cohen^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Temple Autoimmunity Center, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
² Unit of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Azienda Socio-Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Ovest Milanese, Milan, Italy.
³ Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: CD163; CD206; Mer receptor tyrosine kinase (MerTK); arthritis; cancer; efferocytosis; fibrosis; macrophages.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Fibrosis
Humans
Inflammation*
Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases*

Substances

Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases