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Plasmacytoids dendritic cells are a therapeutic target in anticancer immunity.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Dec 2012
Palma Giuseppe, De Laurenzi Vincenzo, De Marco Margot, Barbieri Antonio, Petrillo Antonella, Turco Maria Caterina, Arra Claudio
Abstract excerpt
Dendritic cells (DCs) are immunological sentinels of the organism acting as antigen-presenting cells (APC) and are critical for induction of innate and adaptive immunity. Traditionally they are divided in myeloid dendritic cells (mDCs) and plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs), a rare population of circulating cells that selectively express Toll-like receptors (TLR) 7 and TLR9 and have the capacity to produce large...
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