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Human gut-specific homeostatic dendritic cells are generated from blood precursors by the gut microenvironment.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Jul 2012
Mann Elizabeth R, Bernardo David, Al-Hassi Hafid Omar, English Nicholas R, Clark Susan K, McCarthy Neil E, Milestone Andrew N, Cochrane Stella A, Hart Ailsa L, Stagg Andrew J, Knight Stella C
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BACKGROUND: Dendritic cells (DC) dictate not only the type of T-cell immunity, but also homing patterns of T cells in mice. In humans, we characterized normal human gut DC and tested whether gut-specific homeostatic DC could be generated from blood precursors by factors in the gut microenvironment. METHODS: We characterized the phenotype and function of healthy human gut DC compared with blood and skin DC, and...
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