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<i>Leishmania amazonensis</i> -Dendritic Cell Interactions In Vitro and the Priming of Parasite-Specific CD4+ T Cells In Vivo
1 Oct 2001
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The progressive disease following Leishmania amazonensis infection in mice requires functional CD4(+) T cells, which are primed to a disease-promoting phenotype during the infection. To understand how these pathogenic T cells are generated and the role of dendritic cells (DCs) in this process, we use DCs of susceptible BALB/c and resistant C3H/HeJ mice to examine parasite-DC interactions in vitro as well as the...
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