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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2014 Jul 21;20(20):5157–5170. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-13-0866

Table 1.

Immunosuppressive myeloid progenitors in cancer

A. Mouse
Name Ontogeny Phenotype Other Markers Progeny
Gr-MDSC Granulocytic CD45+
CD11b+
Gr1high
Ly6Cint
Ly6G+
CXCR1+
CXCR2+
Potentially Neutrophils
Mo-MDSC Monocytic CD45+
CD11b+
Gr1int
Ly6Chigh
CCR2+
CD115+
CD62L+
CX3CR1−/low
High plasticity: Macrophages, Dendritic cells, resident monocytes, fibrocytes
Inflammatory monocytes Monocytic CD45+
CD11b+
Gr1int
Ly6Chigh
CCR2+
CD115+
CD62L+
CX3CR1−/low
High plasticity: Macrophages, Dendritic cells, Resident monocytes, Fibrocytes, Mo-MDSC
Resident monocytes1 Monocytic CD45+
CD11b+
Ly6C
CX3CR1high
CCR2
CD62L
M2 Macrophages
Fibrocytes Monocytic CD45+
CD34+
Collagen+
CXCR1+
CXCR4+
Fibroblasts
B. Human
Name Ontogeny Phenotype Other Markers Progeny
Gr-MDSC Granulocytic CD45+
Lin
CD11b+
CD14
HLA-
DRlowCD33+
CD15+
CD66b+
Potentially Neutrophils
Mo-MDSC Monocytic CD45+
Lin
CD11b+CD14+
HLA-DRlow
CD33+
CD66b+ High plasticity: Macrophages, Dendritic cells, resident monocytes, fibrocytes
Inflammatory monocytes Monocytic CD45+
Lin
CD14+
HLA-DR+
CD33+
CCR2+
CD115+
CD62L+
CD15−/low
CXCR4+
High plasticity: Macrophages, Dendritic cells, Resident monocytes, Fibrocytes, Mo-MDSC
Resident monocytes1 Monocytic CD45+
CD14+
CD16+
CX3CR1high
CD33dim
CD115+
CD62L
CXCR4+
M2 Macrophage
Fibrocytes Monocytic CD45+
CD34+
Collagen+
α-SMA+
HLA-DR+
CXCR1+
CXCR4+
Fibroblasts
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Although resident monocytes (RM) have not been well studied during cancer, during other inflammatory contexts, RM have a propensity to differentiate into wound-healing (M2) macrophages after extravasation and thus may contribute to macrophage heterogeneity in solid tumors.