Maternal diet and tissue-resident macrophages
Maternal diet durably programs tissue resident macrophages across fetal and early postnatal development.
Developmental programming by maternal overnutrition perturbs tissue-resident macrophage functions.
Developmentally mistuned macrophages render offspring susceptible to various noncommunicable diseases, serving as intergenerational messengers.
https://www.cell.com/trends/immunology/fulltext/S1471-4906(25)00301-1
