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Macrophage confinement reduces the ‘late’ inflammatory gene response to lipopolysaccharide through myocardin-related transcription factor, an actin-binding transcription factor.

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Fig. 1: Schematic representation of the effect of confinement on macrophage inflammatory genes expression.

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