I am designing a hypothetical fungal infection model (assignment) - I am going to infect alveolar epithelial cells, bronchial epithelial cells and alveolar macrophages with fungus separately. Now I also want to design a co-culture, where I will look if interactions of epithelial cells and macrophages have an effect on infection outcome. I am not sure about co-culture model - is it possible to design a co-culture model of lung epithelial cells and macrophages using primary cells? Or would it be easier to design one using cell lines?
If cell lines, while I have found appropriate alveolar and bronchial epithelial cells, I am having hard time finding a good alveolar macrophage cell line, so will happily take any reccommendations for those too.