Consistent with lung surfactant build up in the children’s lungs and the monocyte migration impairment, the researchers found a decreased number of alveolar macrophages in their patients’ ...

However, neutrophil, basophil, and programmed death ligand 2 (PD-L2 +) monocyte/macrophage levels did not differ between the groups. This finding implies that restraint stress leads to ...

The stressed macrophages then send out an "SOS" signal by releasing a substance called MCP-1 (monocyte chemoattractant ...