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Characterisation of rat corneal cells that take up soluble antigen: an in vivo and in vitro study.
Experimental eye research - 1 Nov 2006
McMenamin Paul G, Kezic Jelena, Camelo Serge
Abstract excerpt
The aim of the present study was to determine the capacity of resident corneal and limbal dendritic cells (DC) and macrophages to capture antigen (Ag) in vivo and compare this to their capacity in vitro to take up Ag during organ culture conditions. To investigate Ag uptake in vivo 3 microl (30 microg) of fluorescently labelled Dextran, bovine serum albumin (BSA) or ovalbumin (OVA) were either placed on the...
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