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Studies from S. Benko and co-researchers yield new data on vaccines
July 30th, 2008
According to recent research from Debrecen, Hungary, "Preventive vaccination is the most successful approach against infectious diseases and has a great impact on world health. Vaccines operate through the activation of innate immunity that helps to stimulate antigen-specific T- and B-lymphocytes." "These events are orchestrated by dendritic cells (DCs) that are able to sample foreign structures and concomitantly sense 'danger signals'. Thus, DCs provide a functional link between innate and acquired immunity, and due to their regulatory potential are referred to as natural adjuvants. Human conventional and plasmacytoid DCs express different sets of well-characterized...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-07-30)
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