Article
A life stage of particle-laden rat dendritic cells in vivo: their terminal division, active phagocytosis, and translocation from the liver to the draining lymph.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 1 Apr 1996
Matsuno K, Ezaki T, Kudo S, Uehara Y
Abstract excerpt
Initiation of an adoptive immune response against pathogenic organisms, such as bacteria and fungi, may involve phagocytic activity of dendritic cells (DC) or their immature precursors as a prelude to antigen processing and presentation. After intravenous injection of rats with particulate matter...
Topics
- Animals
- Biomarkers
- Carbon
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Division
- Cell Movement
- Dendritic Cells
- Kupffer Cells
- Liver
- Lymph
- Lymph Node Excision
- Male
- Phagocytes
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred BUF