Imágenes dinámicas de las interacciones entre células T y células dendríticas en los ganglios linfáticos

Sabine Stoll1, Jérôme Delon, Tilmann M Brotz

  • 1Lymphocyte Biology Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 8, 2002
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores visualizan las células T y las células dendríticas interactuando en los ganglios linfáticos. Esta imagen dinámica reveló cómo la activación y migración de las células T ocurren en tiempo real durante las respuestas inmunes.

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