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Isolation of Uterine Innate Lymphoid Cells for Analysis by Flow Cytometry
Published on: October 14, 2021
Shared Transcriptional Control of Innate Lymphoid Cell and Dendritic Cell Development
Prachi Bagadia1, Xiao Huang1, Tian-Tian Liu1
1Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63108, USA;
Abstract:
Innate immunity and adaptive immunity consist of highly specialized immune lineages that depend on transcription factors for both function and development. In this review, we dissect the similarities between two innate lineages, innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) and dendritic cells (DCs), and an adaptive immune lineage, T cells. ILCs, DCs, and T cells make up four functional immune modules and interact in concert to produce a specified immune response. These three immune lineages also share transcriptional networks governing the development of each lineage, and we discuss the similarities between ILCs and DCs in this review.
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