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SUBMITTER: Edwards JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5247722 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Edwards Jane C JC Everett Helen E HE Pedrera Miriam M Mokhtar Helen H Marchi Emanuele E Soldevila Ferran F Kaveh Daryan A DA Hogarth Philip J PJ Johns Helen L HL Nunez-Garcia Javier J Steinbach Falko F Crooke Helen R HR Graham Simon P SP
Scientific reports 20170120
Conventional dendritic cells (cDC) are professional antigen-presenting cells that induce immune activation or tolerance. Two functionally specialised populations, termed cDC1 and cDC2, have been described in humans, mice, ruminants and recently in pigs. Pigs are an important biomedical model species and a key source of animal protein; therefore further understanding of their immune system will help underpin the development of disease prevention strategies. To characterise cDC populations in porc ...[more]