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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ribeiro-Gomes FL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4720886 | biostudies-other | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Cell death & disease 20151210
Neutrophils are the predominant recruited and infected cells during the early stages of Leishmania major infection in the skin, and depletion of neutrophils promotes immunity to infection transmitted by sand fly bite. In order to better understand how the acute neutrophilic response suppresses immunity, we assessed the consequences of the interaction between neutrophils recovered from the skin-inoculation site and bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (DCs) in vitro. The capture of infected, apopt ...[more]