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T lymphocytes promote the development of bone marrow-derived APC in the central nervous system.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Jan 2001
Subramanian S, Bourdette D N, Corless C, Vandenbark A A, Offner H, Jones R E
Abstract excerpt
Certain cells within the CNS, microglial cells and perivascular macrophages, develop from hemopoietic myelomonocytic lineage progenitors in the bone marrow (BM). Such BM-derived cells function as CNS APC during the development of T cell-mediated paralytic inflammation in diseases such as experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and multiple sclerosis. We used a novel, interspecies, rat-into-mouse T cell and/or...
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