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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Drew Pardoll
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-3691 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Chan Camie W CW Crafton Emily E Fan Hong-Ni HN Flook James J Yoshimura Kiyoshi K Skarica Mario M Brockstedt Dirk D Dubensky Thomas W TW Stins Monique F MF Lanier Lewis L LL Pardoll Drew M DM Housseau Franck F
Nature medicine 20060129 2
Natural killer (NK) cells and dendritic cells (DCs) are, respectively, central components of innate and adaptive immune responses. We describe here a third DC lineage, termed interferon-producing killer DCs (IKDCs), distinct from conventional DCs and plasmacytoid DCs and with the molecular expression profile of both NK cells and DCs. They produce substantial amounts of type I interferons (IFN) and interleukin (IL)-12 or IFN-gamma, depending on activation stimuli. Upon stimulation with CpG oligod ...[more]