{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Hung CH"],"funding":["Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China","Kaohsiung Medical University Research Foundation","Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital","Research Center for Environmental Medicine","Kaohsiung Medical University from the Featured Areas Research Center Program"],"pagination":["13879"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9693596"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["23(22)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Arsenic is an environmental factor associated with epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Since macrophages play a crucial role in regulating EMT, we studied the effects of arsenic on macrophage polarization. We first determined the arsenic concentrations to be used by cell viability assays in conjunction with previous studies. In our results, arsenic treatment increased the alternatively activated (M2) macrophage markers, including arginase 1 (<i>ARG-1</i>) gene expression, chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 16 (CCL16), transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1), and the cluster of differentiation 206 (CD206) surface marker. Arsenic-treated macrophages promoted A549 lung epithelial cell invasion and migration in a cell co-culture model and a 3D gel cell co-culture model, confirming that arsenic t"],"journal":["International journal of molecular sciences"],"pubmed_title":["Arsenic Induces M2 Macrophage Polarization and Shifts M1/M2 Cytokine Production via Mitophagy."],"pmcid":["PMC9693596"],"funding_grant_id":["MOST110-2320-B-037-018-MY2","KMUH110-0R81","S-110-10","MOST107-2635-B-037-003-","KMU-M111001","MOST109-2320-B-037-013","KMU-TC111A01-1"],"pubmed_authors":["Hsu HY","Liao WT","Lin YC","Chiou HC","You HL","Tsai ML","Hung CH"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Arsenic Induces M2 Macrophage Polarization and Shifts M1/M2 Cytokine Production via Mitophagy.","description":"Arsenic is an environmental factor associated with epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Since macrophages play a crucial role in regulating EMT, we studied the effects of arsenic on macrophage polarization. We first determined the arsenic concentrations to be used by cell viability assays in conjunction with previous studies. In our results, arsenic treatment increased the alternatively activated (M2) macrophage markers, including arginase 1 (<i>ARG-1</i>) gene expression, chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 16 (CCL16), transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1), and the cluster of differentiation 206 (CD206) surface marker. Arsenic-treated macrophages promoted A549 lung epithelial cell invasion and migration in a cell co-culture model and a 3D gel cell co-culture model, confirming that arsenic t","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Nov","modification":"2026-04-08T13:29:27.066Z","creation":"2025-04-21T14:13:52.306Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9693596","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36430358"],"doi":["10.3390/ijms232213879"]}}