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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Timothy Myers
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-35473 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Blood 20120206 13
Surprisingly little is known about the interaction of human blood mononuclear cells with viruses. Here, we show that monocytes are the predominant cell type infected when peripheral blood mononuclear cells are exposed to viruses ex vivo. Remarkably, infection with vesicular stomatitis virus, vaccinia virus, and a variety of influenza A viruses (including circulating swine-origin virus) induces monocytes to differentiate within 18 hours into CD16(-)CD83(+) mature dendritic cells with enhanced cap ...[more]