Tuberculosis
Dendritic cells and macrophages show different responses to infection
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 23rd, 2002
"Th1-mediated cellular responses are important for protection in tuberculosis," according to Somia Perdow Hickman and colleagues at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York. "However, the mechanisms and APC types responsible for initiating Th1 responses are not well understood."
Hickman and coauthors showed that macrophages and dendritic cells have opposite effects on the...
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