Cell death, dendritic cells and downregulation of the immune response

Apoptotic cells are an important source of many autoantigens and the realization that dendritic cells (DCs), the main antigen presenting cell of the adaptive immune system, not only internalise such drying cells but present antigen derived from them had important implications for our understanding o...

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Main Author: Stuart, Lynda Maria
Published: University of Edinburgh 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.662569