Of origins and pedigrees: lineage tracing of dendritic cells

Carmen Gerlach1, Aude Thiriot, Ulrich H von Andrian

  • 1Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Division of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Cell
|August 20, 2013
PubMed

Understanding the ontogeny of distinct hematopoietic cell types remains a challenge. In this issue, Schraml et al. contribute to unraveling the complexity of a central component of the mononuclear phagocyte system by using a new in vivo approach to trace the progeny of common dendritic cell precursors.