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Microbes and Infection

Volume 2, Issue 3, March 2000, Pages 257-272
Microbes and Infection

The role of dendritic cells in the innate immune system

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Abstract

Dendritic cells (DCs) are bone-marrow-derived leucocytes that are specialised antigen-presenting cells capable of stimulating a primary T-lymphocyte response to specific antigen. In this chapter we discuss the role DCs play in the innate response acting as a critical link with the adaptive response and the influence of the innate response on dendritic cells.

Keywords

dendritic cell
antigen-presenting cell
innate immunity

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