{"id":71918,"date":"2026-07-31T07:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/a-macrophage-compass-for-pigeons-xiaoting-wu\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:11:30","slug":"a-macrophage-compass-for-pigeons-xiaoting-wu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/a-macrophage-compass-for-pigeons-xiaoting-wu\/","title":{"rendered":"A macrophage compass for pigeons. Xiaoting Wu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><b>Trends Immunol<\/b>. 2026 Jul 30:S1471-4906(26)00182-1. doi: 10.1016\/j.it.2026.07.003. Online ahead of print.<\/p>\n<p><b>ABSTRACT<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Homing pigeons&#8217; navigation in darkness relies on Earth&#8217;s magnetic field. However, the underlying mechanism of magnetoreception remains poorly understood. Recently, Lisowski et al. demonstrated that superparamagnetic hepatic macrophages are potential magnetoreceptors that detect and transmit geomagnetic information to support the navigation of pigeons.<\/p>\n<p>PMID:<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/42532713\/?utm_source=SimplePie&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_content=100966032&amp;ff=20260731011129&amp;v=2.20.0.post5+40e1b98\">42532713<\/a> | DOI:<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.it.2026.07.003\">10.1016\/j.it.2026.07.003<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trends Immunol. 2026 Jul 30:S1471-4906(26)00182-1. doi: 10.1016\/j.it.2026.07.003. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Homing pigeons&#8217; navigation in darkness relies on Earth&#8217;s magnetic field. However, the underlying mechanism of magnetoreception remains poorly understood. Recently, Lisowski et al. demonstrated that superparamagnetic hepatic macrophages are potential magnetoreceptors that detect and transmit geomagnetic information to support the navigation of pigeons. &#8230; <a title=\"A macrophage compass for pigeons. Xiaoting Wu\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/a-macrophage-compass-for-pigeons-xiaoting-wu\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A macrophage compass for pigeons. Xiaoting Wu\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publicaciones","category-trends-in-immunology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmuno.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}