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SUBMITTER: Iijima N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3017177 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Iijima Norifumi N Mattei Lisa M LM Iwasaki Akiko A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20101220 1
Monocytes patrol various tissues for signs of infection and inflammation. Inflammatory monocytes enter peripheral tissues at sites of microbial infection and differentiate into dendritic cells and macrophages. Here, we examined the importance of monocytes in primary mucosal infection with herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2), and demonstrate that monocyte-derived APCs are required to elicit IFN-γ secretion from effector Th1 cells to mediate antiviral protection. However, monocyte-derived APCs were dis ...[more]