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Characterization of the Myeloid Cell Populations' Resident in the Porcine Palatine Tonsil.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2018
Soldevila Ferran, Edwards Jane C, Graham Simon P, Stevens Lisa M, Crudgington Bentley, Crooke Helen R, Werling Dirk, Steinbach Falko
Abstract excerpt
The palatine tonsil is the portal of entry for food and air and is continuously subjected to environmental challenges, including pathogens, which use the tonsil and pharynx as a primary site of replication. In pigs, this includes the viruses causing porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome, and classical and African swine fever; diseases that have impacted the pig production industry globally. Despite the...
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