Table 1.

Macrophage-specific surface markers and their expression in self-renewing islet-resident macrophages, circulating monocyte-derived macrophages and dendritic cells in pancreatic islets.

	Islet Resident Macrophages	Monocyte Derived Macrophages	Dendritic Cells	Ref.
MHCII	+++	+++	+++	[71,80]
F4/80	+++	+++	−	[71,81]
CD11c	++	++	++	[61,78,82]
CD11b	++	++	+	[82,83]
Ly6C	−	++	−	[83]

Levels of expression are indicated as absent (−), low (+), medium (++) and high (+++).