Dendritic cells: Understanding immunogenicity
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Dendritic cells: understanding immunogenicity.
The impetus for the discovery of dendritic cells in 1972 was to understand immunogenicity, the capacity of an antigenic substance to provoke immunity. During experiments to characterize "accessory" cells that enhanced immunity, we spotted unusual stellate cells in mouse spleen. They had a distinct capacity to form and retract processes or dendrites and were named dendritic cells (DC). DC proved...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Immunology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0014-2980,1521-4141
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200737400