Quantitative and qualitative deficits in neonatal lung-migratory dendritic cells impact the generation of the CD8+ T cell response.

CD103+ and CD11b+ populations of CD11c+MHCIIhi murine dendritic cells (DCs) have been shown to carry antigens from the lung through the afferent lymphatics to mediastinal lymph nodes (MLN). We compared the responses of these two DC populations in neonatal and adult mice following intranasal infectio...

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Main Authors: Tracy J Ruckwardt, Allison M W Malloy, Kaitlyn M Morabito, Barney S Graham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-02-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3923758?pdf=render