Multiple choice

Monocytes and macrophages are critical effectors and regulators of inflammation and the innate immune response of the body. Which of the following cells are not thought to be of monocyte-macrophage lineage?

  1. Neutrophils

  2. Follicular dendritic cells of lymph nodes

  3. Kupffer cells in liver

  4. Histiocytes in tissues

  5. Monocytes in blood
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Explanation

These are of the myeloid lineage which separates from the monocyte-macrophage lineage after the pluripotent stem cell stage.

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