Dendritic cells: phenotypic and functional heterogeneity.

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Dendritic cells are specialized to capture antigens, process them and present them to T cells to initiate, regulate and fine tune immune responses towards pathogens and tumours. The story of these cells began more than forty years ago and the interest for them is ever growing because of their central role in immunobiology. Dendritic cells are heterogeneous for origin, anatomical localization, phenotype and...

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