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Liver-resident CD103+ dendritic cells prime antiviral CD8+ T cells in situ.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Apr 2015
Krueger Peter D, Kim Taeg S, Sung Sun-Sang J, Braciale Thomas J, Hahn Young S
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The liver maintains a tolerogenic environment to avoid unwarranted activation of its resident immune cells upon continuous exposure to food and bacterially derived Ags. However, in response to hepatotropic viral infection, the liver's ability to switch from a hyporesponsive to a proinflammatory environment is mediated by select sentinels within the parenchyma. To determine the contribution of hepatic dendritic...
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