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Macrophage Models for Tuberculosis Studies
Tao Wei1, Fei Li1, Qin Huang2, Fukai Bao3* and Aihua Liu4
1Department of Library, Kunming Medical University, China
2Department of Educational Affairs, Kunming Medical University, China
3Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Kunming Medical University, China
4Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Kunming Medical University, China
- *Corresponding Author:
- Fukai Bao
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
Tel: 86-871-5314539
E-mail: baofukai@kmmu.edu.cn
Received Date: January 29, 2016 Accepted Date: February 16, 2016 Published Date: February 23, 2016
Citation: Wei T, Huang Q, Li F, Bao F, Liu A (2016) Macrophage Models for Tuberculosis Studies. Air Water Borne Dis 5:124. doi: 10.4172/2167-7719.1000124
Copyright: © 2016 Wei T, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Setting: Macrophage models create an environment for the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and can be applied to studies on the intracellular pathogen. Objective: To review macrophage models for tuberculosis studies in terms of the cell sources and applications. Methods: The online English database PubMed, Chinese databases such as CNKI, SinoMed, and Wanfang were searched up to December 2010 for published articles. Two groups of terms were used for the information retrieval, one of which includes macrophage model, macrophages model, macrophage models, macrophages models, macrophage, and macrophages; the other group of terms comprises Mycobacterium tuberculosis. For PubMed, the two groups of English terms were applied, while for the Chinese databases, related Chinese terms were used. Results: Cell sources of macrophage models include murine bone marrows, human peripheral blood, human lungs, and cell lines. The screened antituberculosis drugs are Western drugs such as ciprofloxacin and ofloxacin, and traditional Chinese medications like pittosporum brevicalyx (oliv.) gagnep and ranunculus ternatus thunb. The regulation of SigB and SigF was described in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis, while pknE mutant modifying the innate immune response in immuno-mechanism of tuberculosis. Conclusions:There are four major cell sources for developing a macrophage model, which can be applied to studies on screening both Western and Chinese anti-TB drugs, figuring out the pathogenesis and immunemechanism of TB with some key issues remaining to be dealt with.
